Before too long I was playing badly out in some bars around Memphis, but as soon as I learned a few chords I started writing my own stuff.

I'd always been a fan growing up, and in high school, I was really into Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen.

I was 35 years old and not in the best of shape. I spent many late nights playing music, drinking beer, and eating Taco Bell.

There are about five or six songs that were written in full or in part while I was in Iraq, and that was definitely a life-changing experience. There was no shortage of inspiration.

I love most 70's song writers, not so much outlaw, but really those 70's guys. I'm a big fan of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, those guys.

On the music side, I'm a cross between maybe that Texas songwriter and that Tom Petty feel.

Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

When we can return to the roads of our past and see nothing but the beautiful view, then we've truly moved on.

Never allow the blessings in your life to go consciously and subconsciously unnoticed, no matter how small they are.

This a a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.

If there was one thing which Sloan had learned over the years it was that you should never underestimate the element of luck in detective work.

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

We need to act and act now to get people out of harm's way.

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!