As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.

I have been waiting a long time for this. It's been my dream forever. Now that it's a reality, I love it. I haven't been burnt out at all and I have a bunch of guys with me that feel the same way.

I'm thinking of you, that's all I do, all the time. You're always the first and the last thing on this heart of mine. No matter where I go, or what I do, I'm thinking of you.

I'm always looking for things that make me kind of uncomfortable.

When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.

You cant write about stuff you dont know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

I'm a member of the George Jones fan club, and I'm a member of U2's fan club.

I also was a huge 'Dukes of Hazzard' fan. I used to have T-shirts that said 'Dierks of Hazzard' custom-made.

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.

I'm a huge fan of Billy Idol. I spiked my hair every day like him in 7th and 8th grade.

If everyone takes one action for peace every day, our future generations will be able to enjoy peace.

The first rule of book club - is that nobody wants to talk about book club.

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

We're out of control on this loony balloon, barely missing the other planets and stars.

Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything.