I'd like to think that throughout my career whatever my current record is has 110% of my best.

You should work at everything you do and try to perfect it as best you can.

There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse.

I'll work to maintain my work ethic out on the road, playing my shows, giving 110%, keeping God first, my family second, and treating my fans like royalty.

Family is fun, way more fun than music.

I couldn't write a song to save my life. I wouldn't say that I started to panic, but I was definitely getting frustrated. I couldn't even cross a t or dot an i.

I want to keep my fan base supplied with a steady chain of music.

I would rather have 100,000 fans for a lifetime than a million for a couple years.

I still have a lot of passion for music, but I would quit it tomorrow if that's what my family needed me to do. I'm sure I'd miss it, but it's a job.

I think most performers are just lazy.

Once I made up my mind that music was what I wanted to do, I never looked back.

If someone suffers enough pain and abuse, his volitional capacities will diminish to nothing.

While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

To me, that's the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That's the basic, ultimate freedom.

For someone to believe in you, is always the best feeling in the world

Bullying and violence that exists in someone can also be inherent in a nation without us knowing it.

Many of my poems are not sexual.

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.