When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.

Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.

Youir're doing this wrong.

Don’t wait for a perfect day. To make it a perfect day, dance the whole day, sing every hour, and love every moment

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

For in the wood these golden days Some leaf obeys its Maker's call. And through their hollow aisles it plays With delicate touch the prelude of the Fall.

A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.

An investment in your personal development is the best investment you can make.

And as many of the plates as Joseph Smith translated I handled with my hands, plate after plate.

The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

To know, is to know that you know nothing.