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.

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

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.

Building something that matters is a marathon, not a sprint.

Follow your heart, don't fear changes. Heart changes its content every second with love.

All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful.

In the face of all that has happened, it feels good, really good, to just breathe for a moment.

I believe my using the talent He's given me is His will for my life. Why else would He have bothered giving it to me?

Work hard, and then let the universe take you where you're meant to go.

An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.

Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.

By the time everyone catches up with you, you're bored.

PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that.