Country's hip it's cool music.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place.

There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.

Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

Great music is great music, period.

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.

The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

I had written a book that dealt with really serious issues. Was anybody going to want to read a Christmas love story from me?

People are always nice; I never get anything mean said to me on the street.

Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.

I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though.

Nothing is for sure. Change is the only thing that is the absolute.

Craft your love into everything

Take one day at a time. Allow yourself to change.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.