... there are a lot of shredders in country music - Redd Volkaert, Brent Mason, Dan Huff .. and guys like that

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.

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.

Once you can let go of illusion and draw upon a more universal source of motivation then you will re connect with your true purpose on Earth.

When you discover your own self, you will see that same infinite potential in your lover’s eyes.

One faithful witness is worth a thousand mute professors of religion . . . Our faith grows by expression . . . we must share it—we must witness.

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

It seemed to him a very Edinburgh thing. Welcoming, but not very.

There's real beauty in pushing yourself to expose the real you in more ways.

When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied.