If you can find one thing in your life that can keep you in the moment, you're totally lucky.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.

When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.

On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.

I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.

When you make a great record, it's around forever.

I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

Also, in the dismal Cold Waste, any man treasures illusions, though knowing them almost certainly to be such.

He could silence me, but Rob had no power over my mind

Trying to destroy darkness is like trying to crush water. It will always be a part of you, whether you admit it or not.

Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.

If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.

Father, break my heart for what breaks yours. Give me open hands and open doors. Put your light in my eyes and let me see, that my own little world is not about me.

Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness

Jesus suffered deeply because He loves us deeply! He wants us to repent and be converted so that He can fully heal us.

When the pressure's on, I always seem to go bigger and land everything better.

I have a lot on my plate. I'm not going to lie about it, I'm tired. I'm really tired but I'm also very happy with my life.