I think most performers are just lazy.

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.

Once I made up my mind that music was what I wanted to do, I never looked back.

Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell on earth.

Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time.

Terror collided violently with reason.

You will win as many souls as God gives you, but no one will be converted by your own power.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.

If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

Youre always going to have some individual incidents that arent going to show off the Ryder Cup in the true form and spirit that it was made.