Country music is three chords and the truth.

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

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.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

I firmly believe in music being as free as possible. Unlocked. Shared and spread. In order for artists to survive and create, their audiences need to step up and directly support them.

I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that.

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

America was built on an attempted genocide, anyway. Guns were completely necessary.

I don't like very young women very much. Never did.

I haven't thought about aspirations for the future. I like politics, I like serving the public, and we'll see if God offers us another opportunity in the future.

Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.

It opens our eyes to many quite weird possibilities about disease that most medical scientists, tending to be unaware of current evolutionary thought, don't think of.