I just continue to be myself and give this thing over to the good lord, just do my best every night and pretend like it's just any other job.

I am who I am and I don't think you can put a label on it.

When your songs are like your babies, even the one that you know aren't great, you still love.

I try not to keep my head in the clouds .

I think if you expect it to do well, you come off a little bit cocky.

I think everything moving forward will just be instinctual, like we'll know exactly which doors to walk through when they open.

In my opinion, if you buy a ticket to see me you're buying experience. People don't want to see me stand there and play guitar, they want to party with us.

I'd love to do a live record, I'd love to do an acoustic record, I'm already thinking about what I may want to do with the next studio record.

I try to make sure that, when I'm writing, I don't put too much Cody in it. But I don't want to lose it either.

I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to the same man at one of my shows or sitting down at my dinner table.

I don't like reality TV as far as it being scripted and not being true reality.

In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success

It was so close to October that Halloween was knocking at his heart.

Don't sit with your back to any doors.

What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way.

Enlightenment isn't the end but the beginning, the start of a journey that a small group of people begun while the rest sleeps.

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.

Physical Fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence.