Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

You know, I'm pro-troops, but I'm not pro-war.

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

I ain't as good as I once was, But I'm as good once as I ever was.

There's some nights I can't remember with friends I can't forget.

We ain't got a lot, but we don't need anything. Covered in kisses, surrounded by love, showered with blessings from up above.

Raise up your glasses against evil forces; Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses.

My mind is cautious but my heart is in a hurry.

I sobered up and I got to thinking, girl, you ain't much fun since I quit drinking.

I'd catch moonlight in a bottle, if we could drink a toast to happiness.

Don't apologize for being patriotic. Support the troops

Do not change your clothes, change your thoughts.

The real test of a musician is live performance. It's one thing to spend a long time learning how to play well in the studio, but to do it in front of people is what keeps me coming back to touring.

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

That's what's so cool about 'Once:' There is a layer of darker stuff, but it's balanced by this incredible light.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

For someone to ask 'Who did you play for' and to be able to answer a single name 'Liverpool' that would be brilliant...I don't think I'd ever leave

Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put 2 and 2 together.

To add growth, lead followers - to multiply, lead leaders.

It's great to do commercial movies; they are fun. You're doing stunts, you are running around, there is a lot of money involved in the production; there are incredible sets and designs.

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.