I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

You can't kill it with goodbye; It always finds a place to hide inside your heart for your whole life. Love is never-ending.

I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.

You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

I drink from a small spring, my thirst exceeds the ocean.

Life is always just to learn.

if someone dies, people say that they loved him even if he was not good person so they start cunning to his family as if he will know it, why don't you keep your mandibles off?

Once you discover freedom, you want to capture it, never let it go.

You can't know what an experience will mean to future-you until you are future-you. You need millions of seconds of perspective, which ultimately, only time can buy.

If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains.

I can make a record like the [previous] one I put out, but I don't want to do that because I want to set the bar so high for myself. I don't want to do it like everyone else.

I wouldn't be able to do anything with my vampire horde except make it run around in a herd, but it would be a very impressive herd.

To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.

I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.