To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.
Freedom requires guns.
I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.
Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.
I never stopped joking around long enough to realize you weren't laughing anymore.
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous.
I'm a product of a Notre Dame education; those professors taught me a lot about how you separate the city of God from the state. I'm also a reverent follower of the tradition of Thomas Jefferson. My years of public life have simply confirmed the intensity of my belief that what I have learned from Joe Evans and Thomas Jefferson was correct.
That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.