I get a lot of sleep on the bus. I bring two dogs with me, who keep me grounded. I guess that's just in my soul. It's good to know that you're good at something.

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.

Never give up on something you really want. It's difficult to wait, but more difficult to regret.

I can help you, Jorge. I can give you back your self. I can give you your will.' He held out his hand, palm open. 'Free will has to be taken, ' I said.

No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out.

The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.

I am not gone but merely walk within you.

Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there