I'm living the dream. I've got a big tour bus, an incredible band, a big house, and a family that are all taken care of through my music. I've got a beautiful wife and three beautiful kids.

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.

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

I don't mean to pry, but saving people is my calling. Yours vigilantly, The Masked Avenger

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.

I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.

Nothing real stands between you and your happiness, only illusion and confusion.

When in doubt, try nutrition first.

I have little hair because my brain is so big it pushes the hair out.

Influence is the single most important skill you can master in your lifetime.