When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

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.

Feeling free is a choice that is ours for the making, ours for the taking at any time, at any age.

If you have dreams, we give them wings

Getting there isn't half the fun, it's all the fun.

I would rather stand against the cannons of the wicked than against the prayers of the righteous.

Attitudes are more important than intelligence.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.

Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.

Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name.

There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.