I've spent a lot of time in a rock n' roll band trying to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all sort of rushed in at once now. And I like it.

There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they dont dread... Im very lucky.

I've grown tired of traveling alone, won't you ride with me?

I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

If I could write rock & roll songs on purpose, I'd do it all the time. But most of what I write comes out slow and sad because that's most of what I listen to.

The world changes fast, and a lot of the old country folks have a hard time keeping up with it, and it makes them sad.

My wife is so very important to me that it's made my mom more important to me. It's made every woman I know more important to me.

As my life changes, it gives me new things to write about.

The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don’t need him.

It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

If you stay in that new flow of positive behavior, it's hard to revert back to old patterns. But if you do fall off, just forgive yourself, recover quickly, and get right back on.

You never have to be scared to look to the future for opportunity.

Whenever I've speculated in the past relationships, they have never turned out the way I've expected them to.

You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.

Give people not only your care, but also your heart.

I don’t want anyone with me today. Not even him. Some walks you have to take alone.

It 's really hard to impose democracy. It has to emerge naturally. You have to get out of the way and let it happen.