Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

Soul is a feeling, not a color.

No one can deny, this love I have inside, and I'll give it all to you, my endless love.

When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say.

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

Let the music play on would be my legacy.

Simplicity is the key to what I do.

I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home.

Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough.

I'm easy like Sunday Morning.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

To be happy in life, develop at least four hobbies: one to bring you money, one to keep you healthy, one to bring you joy, and one to bring you peace.

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.

Never having something is different than having something and losing it.

We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can't love and accept yourself without doing the same for others.

He frosted under heavy guard.