I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

You can't kill it with goodbye; It always finds a place to hide inside your heart for your whole life. Love is never-ending.

I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.

You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue.

Lonely trees are not lonely

Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

I don't have to be safe to feel safe, I always feel safe at my core.

The last major childhood disease remains and it's the worst of them all: nuclear war.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

I always get a little bit scared reading reviews.

I work extremely hard doing what I love, mainly to ensure that I don't have to work extremely hard doing what I hate.

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.