Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.

Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how we get back up

The easy truth is as much a lie as any.

To be a man, a boy must see a man.

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.

Platitudes are generally the oldest and profoundest of truths.

No one is going to feel sorry for you, so you have to go out there and be fierce.

...fact takes no heed of human hopes.

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

I love the classroom.