RANDY TRAVIS

I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.

I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.

You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.

I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.

My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.

For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.

You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.

Armies gather in the East for the war that's soon to come. Death will march with the mark of the beast, so seek the light and walk with the Son.

Your heroes will help you find good in yourself.

There's a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what's good and fair and lay it all to waste. And that darkness covers everything in sight, until it meets a single point of light.

When I got into my early 20s, I was going to bed one nightI was still drinking, still using drugs, and probably was drunk or high or both when I just picked up the Bible and started reading to go to sleep. I was amazed at how well I slept, but even beyond that, the next day, there was this peace of mind that was still there that I wasnt used to.

I never thought I'd be a good influence on anybody with anything I did or said or sang.

A dimly lit tavern, a willing young woman, are some of the reasons I cheat.

America is not divided, our enemies they will be stopped. Cause we the people are united, and still one nation under God.

The teacher left her wisdom, in the minds of lots of children, and did her best to give them all a better start.

There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.