Anytime you put your name on a ticket with nothing else attached to it, that's the true testament to where you are in your career - how many tickets are sold.

May the simple things be amazing on the journey of your life.

I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.

Back down a country road the girls are always hot and the beer is ice cold.

Everyone has their own path and you cant judge.

There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs.

I'm from Florida, so any time I get invited to come to Florida and play a show, I'm definitely always up for that.

I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida.

But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a bunch of yayhoots with opinions.

I believe a No. 1 song starts happening when it's believable and validating.

I like to take my dog on the road. He stays up front; he likes it there.

What happens in our hearts is our field of freedom. As long as we carry old wounds and anger in our hearts, we continue to suffer. Forgiveness allows us to move on.

I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.

More than any other colonial founder, Oglethorpe made himself one of the people, promoting collective effort.

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

Oon ere it herde, at tother out it went.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.

A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

Runners don't run with their legs, they run ON their legs. In reality, they run with their Arms!

I've played the clarinet since I was a kid. I love to sing, but I'm not much of a singer. Let's say that when it comes to vocalizing, I have the soul of Billy Bigelow but the voice of Jigger Cragan.