I can honestly say that everything I've ever listened to has influenced me or motivated me in one way, form or fashion.

We weren't raised to take, we were raised to give the shirt off our back to anyone in need.

If you can't live it down, might as well live it up.

My life is like a Harley Ride. When I'm on my bike that's really one of the places I feel completely at home.

When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!

I think it's just a conglomerate of everybody's influences that comes out on the record, and live as well.

I always go to my mom's house for Christmas.

My mom's an angel, bless her heart, for everything I put her through.

Every bit of joy in my heart, you know, every smile on my face is yours. It's awesome to be able to share that with somebody.

I'm old school. We're from a small town in Georgia, and I think if we do pictures before the wedding, I think I'm gonna be blindfolded.

she'd played mother and wives. Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.

Giving tithes alone is not enough for financial prosperity.

It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.

My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great ends of preserving and continuing the species.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above all else.

A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.