When you're looking for a band name, I know it sounds weird, but everything you look at, everything you observe and read, you kind of think, 'Man, maybe that could be our band name.

I've always been drawn to city skylines.

That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible.

We have our roots in country, and that's our foundation, but we pull from a lot.

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone's got five security guards. You can't talk to anybody. You always feel out of place, like, 'Hey, the rednecks are in town!

To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.

The feeling itself is the language your Higher Self listens to.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.

Champions behave like champions before they are champions

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

When Everyone thinks alike, everyone is likely to be wrong

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music itself.

All the monsters in your mind just want to be nice. They want to be kind. They want to play nice. They want to be softer than the storms around. You feel them through the windows and the doors.