A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.

I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase.

Work is both my living and my pleasure.

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

As long as there is Fear, Faith is not to be found.Believe the finished work of Christ. Rise Up to Faith!

The internet is a great way to get on the net.

If he'd expected to be pampered and coddled through his undercover assignments, he would have gone to work for the CIA.

Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

I love hitting into the rough because it gets me close to the people.

Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!

An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.

Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.