It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

Don't Spit in the Soup, We All Gotta Eat

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.

I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff and take stuff gradually.

I always want to have a personal relationship with everybody that works for me.

You want women to think of you in a sexy manner. It's all part of the business. It drives ticket sales. It's all a part of it.

I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place.

I'm a big sports fan in general.

I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them.

You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

Anything I've ever read by John Irving has been really well written.

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

With every album, the approach is find the best songs you can find, write the best songs you can write and try to sound better.

American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood.

I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.

I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.

My main thing is I'm gonna go out there every night and give it all I got and just try to put on the best show I can. That's just the way I'm programmed and wired.

To have your first No. 1 as an artist was everything I could have ever dreamed for. Now we're keeping our fingers crossed, and hopefully we'll have many more, but there's certainly nothing like the first one.