Just because I'm country music don't mean I don't have a little bit a' soul down in there somewhere.

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

It's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

The biggest cause of divorce is marriage.

Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.

I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love.

With God, all things are possible. Matthew 19:26

From the moment that man submits God to moral judgment, he kills Him his own heart.

There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.

They cant censor the gleam in my eye.

I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it.

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.

You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

I've been a hunter pretty much all my life.