Having grown up a trailer park kid on welfare and food stamps, becoming jaded is impossible, although now I make a good living, which I'm not ashamed of; when you've been poor, it never leaves you.

The medical protocol for poor people is, if something hurts, get over it. If something hurts real bad, put salve on it.

The way I look at it, every day that I'm moving forward is a day I'm not moving backward. Just the fact that I'm in the race at all is a miracle.

I do think that inside of country music now there's a very silent majority, and I represent that silent majority.

I've been doing stand-up since I was 19. There have been times I've had to step away because of my schedule, but now I'm able to go out and do theaters and not smoky little bars.

Authenticity in any format is important, so I try as hard as I can to stay as real as possible.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.