I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

Stop using the word 'bromance.' Can we please kill that stupid term? We're just friends. It's called friendship!

I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.

The way my family always did Christmas was on Christmas Eve, it wasn't really centered around a dinner on Christmas Eve. It was more about keeping the kids calm. Sometime after dark is when we were going to open all the presents underneath the tree from Mom, Dad and the kids and everything - just the family presents was every Christmas Eve.

I don't know anybody as creative and unique and off the wall as Dia Frampton. She's always asking me, 'Am I too weird?' I just tell her, 'People don't think you're weird, they think you're cool.'

What I do is what I like; if I'm not as famous as I'd like to be, I've done it to myself.

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management.

Even if it's your wedding, if you're a guy, it's boring.

When you start dating another country star, the first question is, 'When are y'all gonna do a duet?' And what sucks about that is people expect you to do it whether you want to or not.

Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.

One of my pet peeves about Nashville is that it tends to be copycatted. I don't want to do that. I've got to be different.

I lost my brother in a car wreck when I was 14 years old. When I decided I wanted to be a country singer, my dad always told me, 'Son, you should write a song about your brother.'

As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.

Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.

What is art but a way of seeing?

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

The Christmas market at the Barcelona Cathedral sells all kinds of things for your Nativity scene. It will also give you a good idea of Catalan culture.

Education is everything. It's for everyone. We all need to be educated.

For food to be romantic, it should be light. Too many times people plan a romantic meal, and the food is too heavy.

I'm always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.

People travel north from Barcelona, not south.

As legal residents, immigrants would contribute more in taxes, spend more at our businesses, start companies of their own and create more jobs. Immigration is not a problem for us to solve but an opportunity for America to seize.

Music is always on. Not at work. But at home, everything always has to have a soundtrack.

I've been a cook all my life, but I am still learning to be a good chef. I'm always learning new techniques and improving beyond my own knowledge because there is always something new to learn and new horizons to discover.

When you go to watch a baseball game, when you go to watch an NBA game, when you watch an NFL game, when you go to watch movies, the offering that those arenas are doing foodwise is 'all the hot dogs you can eat'; all the French fries you can eat; for $20 you can eat 20 hot dogs.

A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.

Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.

Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation.