I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.

It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.

Sometimes the only way is jumping; hope you’re not afraid of heights.

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

To leave this world a better person, and for me to not be the only one who knows it.

I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success

So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.

We are not impotent. We can choose how we allow circumstances and experiences to influence us. We can change our interpretation of what happened and we can adjust our response to this interpretation.

Whoever walks daily shall know the worth of walking.

I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.

I have more critics than Hitler.

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.

.. if all the information of the cosmos flows through our pores at every moment, then our current notion of our human potential is only a glimmer of what it should be.

I do write my own music, and I also have been doing a lot of non-Beatle covers, just singing whatever I want to sing, the way I want to sing. But it can be hard to find the time to do that.

Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.