If I could write rock & roll songs on purpose, I'd do it all the time. But most of what I write comes out slow and sad because that's most of what I listen to.

There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they dont dread... Im very lucky.

I've grown tired of traveling alone, won't you ride with me?

I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

The world changes fast, and a lot of the old country folks have a hard time keeping up with it, and it makes them sad.

My wife is so very important to me that it's made my mom more important to me. It's made every woman I know more important to me.

I've spent a lot of time in a rock n' roll band trying to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all sort of rushed in at once now. And I like it.

As my life changes, it gives me new things to write about.

Every man produces only to the capacity of their philosophies of life or doctrines as we Christians call it.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

Once you squeeze toothpaste out, you can't put it back into the tube. The same is true with our words. Once we say something hurtful, we can't take it back

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.

I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world.