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

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.

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.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

We may be born equal but we do not prepare equally...

Maybe you're holding on too tight, and the magic comes in letting go.

Speak blessings, and write wishes. ~T.F. Hodge

Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.

Every reformation ruins somebody.

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

I never cheated, for the record, back when I was with you. But you believed in everything but me girl, I don't get you

There's been so many different types of musicals and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.

Youth now flees on feathered foot.

I'm coming little animal!.