Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

But I'm warning you, we're growing up.

You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye.

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.

The purpose of it all is love.

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

In life, I'm most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.

Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.

The mole can't live in your dollhouse.

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

You'd be surprised how expensive it costs to look this cheap.

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.

I've reached a point in my life where going to the supermarket is a day out.

Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return

I don't like reality TV as far as it being scripted and not being true reality.

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.

Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?

Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.

Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.