I knew that the right person for Crossroads would come along if we were just patient and made sure that we didn't try to force anything.

Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record.

Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.

Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.

You have a feeling when you're recording, like, 'This is gonna translate really well, ' and when you see it live, and it kind of proves that, that's an amazing feeling.

You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.

I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.

It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.

Value yourself first and only then you can learn to value others.

I have a unique ability to mock everything. I'm a sponge by nature, thats what my environment made me.

If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.

If we live in such a way that the considerations of eternity press upon us, we will make better decisions.

Evolution is your solution.