My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes

My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.

I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and son have both said that grey hair doesn't suit me because I have a boyish face.

I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on tour - I promised my wife and son no more than two weeks on the road.

I'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now.

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.

Life is a lesson, when you could get it over by your hands, means you just learned it well.

You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments.

Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

They're gonna try to tell you no, shatter all your dreams. But you gotta get up and go and think of better things.

Wealthy people always know the exact value of their time.

Artists want to sell their work, sure. But they aren't out there asking questions about what people want and what they don't want, now are they?

We should have communicated to Iran that we are prepared, that we are considering military options. They're not just on the table, they are in our hands.

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.

What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can't help it if liberal books don't sell.

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.