Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!

With anything you do in life, there are days where you're worn out and you don't want to do it for a second.

The country crowd just has fun.

My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that moment. I was trying to replicate that dance-off between Justin Timberlake and Brittany Spears.

My wife thinks I'm a narcissist, but I just think it's hilarious going on YouTube and seeing these covers. There are so many of them - literally hundreds! It's flattering.

I see too many celebrity kids who can't sing. If you don't have it, give it up, because people are brutal. I never want my kids to feel like they have to live up to what I've done.

We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.

I'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.

I'm a real fan of that Foster the People song 'Pumped Up Kicks.'

I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.

Is it a bad sign when someone asks you about the person your dating and a tear falls from your eye as you leap into oncoming traffic?

They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

If a child is not listening, don't despair. Time and truth are on your side. At the right moment, your words will return as if from heaven itself. Your testimony will never leave your children.

I don't feel depressed. I feel elated.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.

We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.