Do excellent work for Christ. So that's my heart. It's always been. And I want to be the best I can be. I want to make a difference in my generation.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place.

There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.

Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

Great music is great music, period.

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.

The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

Peace with God brings peace with each other.

Enjoying your Christmas in the land of the dead? Fun and different, right?

In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.

If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.

In God's sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.

No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

You have to stay true to yourself and where youre coming from, and sometimes people see you in a different light, but you have to take it in and try to be positive about anything.

I am a realist. I expect miracles.

But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?

The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.