I love most 70's song writers, not so much outlaw, but really those 70's guys. I'm a big fan of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, those guys.

I'd always been a fan growing up, and in high school, I was really into Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen.

Before too long I was playing badly out in some bars around Memphis, but as soon as I learned a few chords I started writing my own stuff.

I was 35 years old and not in the best of shape. I spent many late nights playing music, drinking beer, and eating Taco Bell.

There are about five or six songs that were written in full or in part while I was in Iraq, and that was definitely a life-changing experience. There was no shortage of inspiration.

On the music side, I'm a cross between maybe that Texas songwriter and that Tom Petty feel.

Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.

You're both living these lives you didn't choose to live in a world full of people telling you what that's supposed to mean. That's messed up.

Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?

New Orleans in an amazing town.

The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.

The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses.

The words you say could hurt or help you. "Change Your Words, Change Your Life"

You usually dont know what you are going to write about so you go to the places and talk to the people who were identified with the events.

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine

There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for.