I don't know about one moment that has pivoted my career. I do know that one thing that hit me and made me take a few steps back was a year at Steamboat.

I am who I am and I don't think you can put a label on it.

I just continue to be myself and give this thing over to the good lord, just do my best every night and pretend like it's just any other job.

When your songs are like your babies, even the one that you know aren't great, you still love.

I try not to keep my head in the clouds .

I think if you expect it to do well, you come off a little bit cocky.

I think everything moving forward will just be instinctual, like we'll know exactly which doors to walk through when they open.

In my opinion, if you buy a ticket to see me you're buying experience. People don't want to see me stand there and play guitar, they want to party with us.

I'd love to do a live record, I'd love to do an acoustic record, I'm already thinking about what I may want to do with the next studio record.

I try to make sure that, when I'm writing, I don't put too much Cody in it. But I don't want to lose it either.

I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to the same man at one of my shows or sitting down at my dinner table.

The greatest desire is the desire to be free. The greatest freedom is the freedom to desire.

What you hold in your consciousness tends to manifest—the inner game runs the outer game.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

JedeTrennung gibt einenVorgeschmack desTodesund jedes Wiedersehen einenVorgeschmack der Auferstehung. Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.

I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.

I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.

Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.