I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.

I knew that the right person for Crossroads would come along if we were just patient and made sure that we didn't try to force anything.

Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record.

Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.

Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.

You have a feeling when you're recording, like, 'This is gonna translate really well, ' and when you see it live, and it kind of proves that, that's an amazing feeling.

You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.

It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.

[There is a] quiet glory [in] merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations.

Hate is the father of all evil.

No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.

[My kids] complained about Secret Service as they became teenagers, and Secret Service has done the very best job they could accommodating them, so it hasn't restricted any of their activities.

I choose to express myself.

It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood.

One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change.

Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others.

Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.

Here's to responsibility, twice a week.