As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

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.

Have you ever asked yourself this question "what can God do through me?" The preacher has no platform if the people has no sense of mission.

Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.

I feel young, but my body doesn't agree.

Normally I play dads, good guys, and little animals.

But monument themselves memorials need.

I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.

Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.

...but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes.

Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home. . . .

He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until the day he hit my sister and stopped crying.