Everybody is on drugs . . . just give 'em what they want.

Even with most finite planning you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.

I believe framing reality is one of the only ways we can ever be sure it actually exists. In that regard, I feel as though I'm still learning who I am as an artist.

Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road.

Act with the heart of the warrior.

But you know how it is with fathers and sons. We can’t say what we want to say. We think a nod is a paragraph and a sentence is a book, and, in the end, all that’s important is left unspoken.

I think sometimes I think too damn much. I worry about this and that and everything else and then I wake up and four more years have slipped right out the back door.

I live there...Far above the song-filled clouds, where the dewdrops touch my skin so bareI live there.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

When the economy is still struggling, putting people back to work, finding ways to spur economic activity, ultimately can help to reduce the structural deficits and debts that countries experience.

Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.

The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.