My life is like a Harley Ride. When I'm on my bike that's really one of the places I feel completely at home.

We weren't raised to take, we were raised to give the shirt off our back to anyone in need.

If you can't live it down, might as well live it up.

When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!

I think it's just a conglomerate of everybody's influences that comes out on the record, and live as well.

I can honestly say that everything I've ever listened to has influenced me or motivated me in one way, form or fashion.

I always go to my mom's house for Christmas.

My mom's an angel, bless her heart, for everything I put her through.

Every bit of joy in my heart, you know, every smile on my face is yours. It's awesome to be able to share that with somebody.

I'm old school. We're from a small town in Georgia, and I think if we do pictures before the wedding, I think I'm gonna be blindfolded.

Achieving a goal is important, but what is more important is the distance that you have to travel with its ups and downs, fears and failures.

Air goes in and outof my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heartbrain - and so I am

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world

Acquire several skills and find at least one that you can master, and that earns you respect.

As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?

It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.

The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God.

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.