In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

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.

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.

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do… I am not a hero, it is true… But I am not a bad person, either.

In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when I do stunts.

You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart.

There's nothing better than a world where everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.

It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.

He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.

I've slowly gone back, later on in life, to fish and then chicken and then, last year, red meat.