Billy Ray Cyrus Quotes

It's only an interim trip. I love the music, but it's really giving me a way in which I can comfortably explore my art.

I'd actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he's kept himself from being bored.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people.

I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.

As a musician, it's only natural that my music mirrors my life.

Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time and something which is elusive all the time.

Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

Whenever I started writing music, it just naturally led itself there. As I started to tell my story, it's where my home was. It's just a very natural choice.

I suppose ever since I was about 14, I remember listening to "Sgt. Pepper's," and I remember thinking, "how do you possibly write songs like that?" I remember starting to try and write songs around that age, but just sitting around with an acoustic guitar, and try to come up with ideas for songs, and that's just what I've done ever since. I just never really stopped doing that, I suppose.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

A lot of time when I'm creating songs, they're in real time. When I'm writing the song, I feel what I'm feeling for its full potential. As soon as the song is over, I'm like, I created art.

Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world. I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me. But, I think it just came from being affected by strong, personal art.

Every person I've met has influenced my songs.

Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records.

Sometimes I have songs born out of stories.

Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.