If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

You can't kill it with goodbye; It always finds a place to hide inside your heart for your whole life. Love is never-ending.

I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.

You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

I've always backed energy independence policies, but I've heard from people on this issue like no other. The energy interests of Illinois are far broader and deeper than my North Shore district.

the one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, {playing}

If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.

Even our pets can become idols.

If you want people to respect you or your company, you must first show respect for them.

As the world becomes ever more crowded, so folding will become ever more important.

If I'd known it was going to take 25 years, I'd have started earlier.

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

Let us never lose hope! God loves us always, even with our mistakes and sins.