Whatever you do today you've got to sleep with tonight.

You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string

I'd like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.

I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.

Some sell their soul for the easy road. The devil's always buying. I can't count the ones I've known who fell right into line.

Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.

You're not challenging anyone else but yourself. I'd like to have a 300-pound bench, 500-pound deadlift, and a 400-pound squat.

The romantic stuff comes a lot easier when you're experiencing true love. It feels better, it feels more natural to record love songs when you're in love.

Never underestimate your fans; they'll tell you exactly what they like.

I'm a machine freak. I just love it when you can get a big ol' steel machine to do the most that it's capable of doing.

Every day we encounter situations where we have to make a stand. Looking back, I could have not hand-picked a better song to be my first single.

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.

Living life, I mean, my two stepsons, my husband, I think every day - today interaction inspires me - as far as music goes - inspires my art.

I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.

I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Roland grabbed Jake and hauled him to his feet. “You came!” Jake shouted. “You really came!” “I came, yes. By the grace of the gods and the courage of my friends, I came.

Don't boo people! Don't boo! Be more specific! Like, 'WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT?! I HATE THAT! I HATE IT!'