I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.

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.

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

In the very end, all we have left to atone for our faults are words.

They say that to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know himself. Nothing human is fully calculable

Thumbelina what's the difference if you're very small? When your heart is full of love you're nine feet tall!

Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.

Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it.

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.

We do not kill an Iraqi.