You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.

It took me eight books to finally be at a point in my career where I could come out with a book and say, 'This is meant to be a funny book,' and we didn't have to make any bones about it.

But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

Pushing away unwanted feelings and situations equals inviting them to return back with a greater strength.

Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?

Its a fathers duty to give his sons a fine chance.

I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.

I think Mormons are good, moral people, but they're not part of Christianity.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

Satire doesn't effect change.

By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment. You are beautiful!

Life is too short to live in fear. Yet life may be the longest moment faced with tears.

I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.

Our favorite attitude should be gratitude.

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.

I wish I was dating one of the ladies in 'Bollywood Hero.' They're gorgeous. Any of them.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

I'm the one who has made all the sacrifices. Those are my American records, not the country's.

Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.