I want people to hear the presence of God in the music.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

I grew up with all kinds of music, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

If I ever did cross over I would like to do it tactfully. I don't want to offend anyone in country. Can you have the best of both worlds? I sure like the idea of it!

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

Both of my parents were musicians.

We are fools, not by our religious beliefs, however by what we are lead to believe by those who control what information we receive

I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen.

You will never have the answers, but you have to keep pushing yourself and keep reading and keep working on yourself.

Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

A teacher is there to laugh at you because you have such a high opinion of yourself that you need to be laughed at. You need to sense how small we all are.

Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

I think the American people ought to take their democracy back.

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

strength is overcome by weakness/Joy is overcome by Pain/The night is overcome by Brightness/and Love-it remains the same.