People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song.

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.

Jesus proclaimed unmistakably that God's law is so perfect and absolute that no one can achieve righteousness. Yet God's grace is so great that we do not have to.

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

An accent has to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow it informs everything about you.

I just think it's growth when you pursue something you're not sure you can do.

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.

In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology.

How would I treat a girl if she was my girlfriend? I'm a really affectionate person and I like being a gentleman.

It's personalities, it's conflict, it's all of these things that actually make performers interesting.

We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.