I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.

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.

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

You want a great life? Well, greatness is on the other side of that fu**ing wall... don't just go over it, go through it! What are you waiting for?

The true wealth of a man is not what's in his pocket, but what's in his heart.

My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us - but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses.

I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can for the director. They have a lot of questions, and your job is to have answers.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Any school would gain, if the students began the day with meditation, cleared their heads and got themselves centered.