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.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

Digital leaders including board directors today need to understand that the linear management skills are not sufficient to lead today’s nonlinear digital world with the deep learning curve.

all the tall mad mountains of her mind

If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.

I want to win the game. I dont worry about taking over the game unless I have to.

You're making movies for 15 years and now people are like, 'You're the AT&T guy.'

Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

Since when does absence of evidence equate to evidence of absence?

When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.

There is no better way to enjoy God's abundance than to share a meal together with people you love.

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.