On the music side, I'm a cross between maybe that Texas songwriter and that Tom Petty feel.

I'd always been a fan growing up, and in high school, I was really into Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen.

Before too long I was playing badly out in some bars around Memphis, but as soon as I learned a few chords I started writing my own stuff.

I was 35 years old and not in the best of shape. I spent many late nights playing music, drinking beer, and eating Taco Bell.

There are about five or six songs that were written in full or in part while I was in Iraq, and that was definitely a life-changing experience. There was no shortage of inspiration.

I love most 70's song writers, not so much outlaw, but really those 70's guys. I'm a big fan of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, those guys.

What a MOTHER means

Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing--with wave lengths, just as sound and light have. An evil place can, so to speak, broadcast vibrations of evil.

we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be.

People have paid for content. They always have.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Running a farm is about solving a problem, and that's always interesting to me. But it's a constant process.

I love modeling but also see it as a platform for the million other things I want to achieve and create in life.

In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.

I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.