I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

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.

Mothers are generally starvers or feeders

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.

In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.

We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself.

How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!

I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life.

Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.