"What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't."

"I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries."

"The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use."

"I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange."

"The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly."

"Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand."

"It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things."

"I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal."