I think if you expect it to do well, you come off a little bit cocky.

I am who I am and I don't think you can put a label on it.

I just continue to be myself and give this thing over to the good lord, just do my best every night and pretend like it's just any other job.

When your songs are like your babies, even the one that you know aren't great, you still love.

I try not to keep my head in the clouds .

I think everything moving forward will just be instinctual, like we'll know exactly which doors to walk through when they open.

In my opinion, if you buy a ticket to see me you're buying experience. People don't want to see me stand there and play guitar, they want to party with us.

I'd love to do a live record, I'd love to do an acoustic record, I'm already thinking about what I may want to do with the next studio record.

I try to make sure that, when I'm writing, I don't put too much Cody in it. But I don't want to lose it either.

I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to the same man at one of my shows or sitting down at my dinner table.

I don't like reality TV as far as it being scripted and not being true reality.

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.

There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.

Reading thus introduces an "art" which is anything but passive.

One of the fastest ways you can profoundly change your life is to rid yourself of toxic people.

Life has the meaning we give it, no more, no less.

What lies beneath has pushed its way to the surface once again. Time to get away while there is still air left in our lungs.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

With Mass Effect we said, "Let's reflect the fact that you can be almost anyone, do almost anything, but..." In our minds, we always felt the character was iconic.

Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.

It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.