If prolific is writing a lot of songs, I'm that. If it's writing a lot of good songs, I'm something else.

I'm a family guy. A lot of my songs are inspired by my kids. Simple relationships. Watching them grow up, watching them share experiences with me and vice versa.

We all have our fears, our insecurities. I'm not different from anyone else.

The most rewarding thing of my success has been the ability to use my music for many different causes that have become important to me.

Usually it is a painful process (writing), "Superman" came in 45 minutes; "100 Years" in four months.

As a sports fan, the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup makes me feel very alive.

I've learned that love takes priority.

I was able to truly immerse myself in the record-making process. I'm excited about music.

In so many of my songs, I'm trying to touch on various aspects of love.

Once you have kids and you're married, it's all about them. My life changed. You can see in my records.

As a songwriter, I think that comes with the territory. The older you get, you like to say it doesn't matter, but you care what people think about what you do.

Everything in life has a space of balance.

I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.

Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should be placed on a path to citizenship.

You can't base your decisions on anyone's opinion but yours and God's.

You are mine, Aisling. You are mine today, tomorrow and five hundred years from now. You will always be mine. I do not give up my treasures, kincsem. You would do well to remember that.

If you really want to turn your health around, start juicing today.

When we are unable to receive, we deny someone else the pleasure of giving.

I am partly not conscious of structure with my movies, but this is when I am writing. I leave my mind very free, and then I correct it after.