My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

But I'm warning you, we're growing up.

You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye.

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.

The purpose of it all is love.

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

In life, I'm most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.

Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.

Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.

The mole can't live in your dollhouse.

A reading appetite is quirky, singular, and essential

People know the value of money so they chase it. I wonder if they know the worth of love.

All men are what they are by reasons of the laws they keep and the thoughts they think.

Little by little the agents have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything, they just stand and take their cut.

Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity.

Art destroys silence.

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.

My daughter and I are so close. She just turned six. I can describe anything she's doing, the least little thing, and I get all excited about it. It's like medicine.

I kind of look at my modeling career and the Alfred Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.