Once you have kids and you're married, it's all about them. My life changed. You can see in my records.

I'm a family guy. A lot of my songs are inspired by my kids. Simple relationships. Watching them grow up, watching them share experiences with me and vice versa.

We all have our fears, our insecurities. I'm not different from anyone else.

The most rewarding thing of my success has been the ability to use my music for many different causes that have become important to me.

Usually it is a painful process (writing), "Superman" came in 45 minutes; "100 Years" in four months.

If prolific is writing a lot of songs, I'm that. If it's writing a lot of good songs, I'm something else.

As a sports fan, the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup makes me feel very alive.

I've learned that love takes priority.

I was able to truly immerse myself in the record-making process. I'm excited about music.

In so many of my songs, I'm trying to touch on various aspects of love.

As a songwriter, I think that comes with the territory. The older you get, you like to say it doesn't matter, but you care what people think about what you do.

Don't just stand there and nod. The mind observes and cogitates, the heart engages, and I would encourage you to engage with the process.

Life is like a fondue: the best fruit ain’t the best till it’s been through some goo.

Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.

I have people who look after me and help me when I'm out of town. But when I'm at home in LA it's my time and I love to just get in my car, crank up the music and relax.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Life is too short to be able to love as one should.

A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.

My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.