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.

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.

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

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.

Everything begins by making your audience pay attention.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

I always wanted to be a comedian and actor. I basically stumbled into the music medium, though. I'm OK, but that's about it. I like to think I'm good enough not to negatively affect the performance.

The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.

I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.

You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am

people with romantic illusions find it hard to make a living.

If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable.

I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier.

To stick to the present situation would be something like a man who was observed in Times Square looking earnestly along the pavement. He was asked what he was looking for. He said "I lost my watch."