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.

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.

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.

Nonetheless, I know where I'm coming from, I've got an idea on where I'm going, And with the way things are going, I'm just glad to be me.

If people respect your age and not your personality, then it's time for you to do some urgent introspection.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

A person is only complete when she has a true friend to understand her, to share all her passions and sorrows with, and to stand by her throughout her life.

It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.

Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.

If I beat my against this desk, maybe things will make sense," Angela murmured. "Or if I beat someone else's head against this desk...." She eyed Jared speculatively

Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.