North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me.

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

The silences weren’t awkward. For me at least. Because I was there in the moment with him.

If you have to think about it twice you probably shouldn't do it

We are our own children's "perfect" parents, and within us lie all the simple, yet profound qualities of inner perfection.

No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.

The more we pull together toward a new day, the less it matters what pushed us apart in the past.

I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU. THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELF OFF.

He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.