Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!

Everyday I see a little more of my father in me.

I don't want to impress, I want to inspire.

From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.

It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone.

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.

Since I was a kid I just wanted to be in Nashville.

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.

If it's a real dream it's uncrushable.

Life is about holding on and letting go.

Best, perhaps to keep one's nickels forever in one's pockets, to savor delicious possibility over mundane experience.

The world meets nobody half way.

I wish I had a dime for every dime I have.

We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.

In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

If you think half of America votes badly because they are stupid or religious, you are trapped in a matrix ... Take the red pill, learn some moral psychology and step outside the moral matrix.

I'm trying to just drop so much music that people cannot ignore it.

A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.

Poor Harper Seven Beckham, having to live with that name all her life. It's the Boy Named Sue syndrome; at the very least it will toughen her up.

Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us, can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.