I keep a pretty tight grip on my schedule and I compare it a lot to a fireman's - a four-on then four-off type of deal.

You should work at everything you do and try to perfect it as best you can.

There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse.

I'll work to maintain my work ethic out on the road, playing my shows, giving 110%, keeping God first, my family second, and treating my fans like royalty.

Family is fun, way more fun than music.

I couldn't write a song to save my life. I wouldn't say that I started to panic, but I was definitely getting frustrated. I couldn't even cross a t or dot an i.

I want to keep my fan base supplied with a steady chain of music.

I would rather have 100,000 fans for a lifetime than a million for a couple years.

I still have a lot of passion for music, but I would quit it tomorrow if that's what my family needed me to do. I'm sure I'd miss it, but it's a job.

I'd like to think that throughout my career whatever my current record is has 110% of my best.

I think most performers are just lazy.

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

They've Already Won (the modern day crusade)

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.

Religion starts with the perception that something is wrong.

There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them. There is nothing about which I do not pray. I go over all my life in the presence of God. All my problems are solved there.

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great