Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.

You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.

If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.

We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith.

You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker, don't you mess around with me.

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

You're the Picasso of pain.

Love and pain become one and the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.

Havin to make all the rules, all the time, wasn’t never my idea of a party.

You are given the potential to excel, whether you do or not is entirely up to you.

There are always unfavourable consequences to consuming unnatural foods.

I have often though morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.

The size of the army, absolutely. It's getting too small.

Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.

Every voting choice you exercise ought to be for the candidate, platform, party, or policy that will best represent the values of the kingdom of God.

I've been touring every year since the band broke up. It's my job. It's what I love to do. So I'm all good with it.