I'm somebody who likes to gravitate toward people who aren't necessarily famous.

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.

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts.

You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.

How strange to have the power to literally transform yourself into other people, and yet be so unable to put yourself in their place.

The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.

I liked science. I wasn't mathematically oriented, so I became an organic chemist.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

The United States is unique among the rich countries, developed countries, in not having some kind of a national health-care system.

I have always wanted to come and play in MLS so it’s the perfect combination for me and a dream come true.

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.

Sometimes doing nothing is doing something.