You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.

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.

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.

Environment isn't asking us to conserve her for her but for our future generations.

Your habits and hygiene demonstrate how you feel about yourself. Without saying a word, they speak for you.

Change is one thing, progress is another.

And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know.

Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.

Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

The universe corresponds to the nature of your song.

You and I don't have the same genetics, we don't live in the same places, but we can have the same basic attitude - being comfortable in our skin.

I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of screams and pleas for mercy. Mmmm. Nothing better. (Noir)

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.