I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.

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.

And yet Curt’s a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that’s all.

Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems that spill over into relationships.

You can't help the poor by becoming one of them.

For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

Let us not mince words about what this would be: a deportation force designed to break up families and deport millions of people.

Pray to god someone prays for me

Nobody's ever made me feel boring but I'm pretty boring. I acknowledge that in myself.

Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time.

Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.