When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

I wouldn't be the man I am today, If not for those I've loved along the way

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.

It's always the roughest path, but I think it's got the most reward at the end.

Stay young and wild as long as you can

I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look 26. I didn't want to do that. I've earned the gray hairs. So I wanted to show that level of honesty.

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.

Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me.

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom or growth upon anyone just for showing up.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go... if it's not a part of your God-given destiny.

Enduring to the end is definitely not a do-it-yourself project.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.

I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.

[You] have what it takes to be a victorious, independent, fearless woman.

The answer to your prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.