Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.

Know when to hold 'um, know when to fold 'um and know when to walk away from cameramen.

Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

I feel like I learn something from everything I do.

I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.

I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.

I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way.

I still like going on the road and performing, but it's getting tougher. I try to have my wife and the twins with me but it's getting harder and harder for them. They need to be in a home environment and not traveling with me.

I think when you're in the public eye, you feel a pressure to stay younger looking.

I was raised in the church.

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.

I've always said that gray hair looks good on everybody but yourself. To me, it makes me look old.

If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.

People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.

The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.

When I think of the things I have, it makes me a little uneasy. I don't want people to think I've lost touch with reality.

You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.

You know, I've always said, I've never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I've always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

You got to know when to hold em know when to fold em Know when to walk away and know when to run.

With Country Music you have one hit and those people love you forever.

Youve got to know when to hold em know when to fold em know when to walk away know when to run.

Growing older is not upsetting being perceived as old is.

You can't make old friends. You either have them or you don't.

Honestly, when you're making a movie, you never say, 'Oh, this one's going to suck and go straight to video.' When you're in it, you think you're doing the best work you can do. You're surrounded by people who are working hard. Everybody's hopeful.

You can waste so much energy trying to make everyone happy, but at the end of the day it's impossible to please everyone, so you just need to focus on what makes you happy.

I think I can do more inside the Republican Party to keep it in the center of the road. That's where Eisenhower was. And I'm an unabashed Eisenhower Republican.

When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success.

Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.

Spirituality is something that makes you who you are on and off the field. It's something you try and live by. The way you play is one thing, but the way you act is a little different. You're just trying to be a good person, the best you can be, on and off the field.

I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'

I want to work with my husband and my daughter on our mutual foundation interests.

Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.

I'm actually just playing honest, whole young women.

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

It doesn't take money to have style, it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find amazing culinary antiques that will make it feel like an old French kitchen.

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

Theres always something in it for the person who is allowing to be taken advantage of.

We're all in this together. I learned that lesson growing up in West Philly. When I shoveled the sidewalk my parents didn't let me stop with our house. They told me to keep shoveling all the way to the corner. I had a responsibility to my community.