Yeah, playing anywhere from three to five gigs a week definitely [helped]. I think all the practice throughout the years and doing what I do paid off.

I think it has a lot to do with determination. I treat people the way I want to be treated and believe if you work hard you can have the things you want in life.

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was my second job.

I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consistantly good music. Eventually someday I would like to open up a school and teach kids about music.

I think I started lip-synching about halfway through the first day, and it's not as easy as you think it would be. But it's definitely better than a day job.

I think America did a great job. I think Carrie Underwood fits the bill of American Idol. She's a wonderful girl, and she's gonna have a great career.

But whatever the Lord throws at me right now, I think I've been given more blessings than I ever deserved. If he wants to top it off with anything - boy, girl - I would love either of them.

Just practice hard and stay grounded. Treat people like you want to be treated and work hard.

It's not just about waking up and trying to be a star... It's practice, practice, practice.

What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.

I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.

I believe that free money is as addictive as cocaine

This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.

More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

Even though my grandparents live overseas and are so far away and we talk as much as we can, we don't see each other that often.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

I knew I was going to have success here.

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.