You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.

I knew that the right person for Crossroads would come along if we were just patient and made sure that we didn't try to force anything.

Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record.

Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.

Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.

You have a feeling when you're recording, like, 'This is gonna translate really well, ' and when you see it live, and it kind of proves that, that's an amazing feeling.

I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.

It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.

I wish you could be kissed, Jane, ' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.

Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit.

No, honey. Maybe you can put the things from the Overlook away in lockboxes, but not memories. Never those. They’re the real ghosts.

Bush the younger has two things going for him that his father never had. One: an easy charm with regular people and two: the power to make them disappear without a trial.

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.

I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.

She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.

A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions.

Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for.

I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.