When I got married, I hired a great choir - the St. James Choir, an all-black gospel choir - to sing at my wedding.

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.

Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.

I don't know why divorce happens, but it does. Embracing it means stepping into the unknown future with a known God and trusting that He will be with you the entire way.

No occupation is considered superior since everyone is doing his best where he is.

Every man lives by exchanging.

Do I wish I could retire? Sure, but that's not life.

I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.

If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.