Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does..

There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good th….

Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl.

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble..

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!.

It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't..

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but….

You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but I'm not the grieving widow. Life is much more comp….

A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition..

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true a….

I really believe that we have a responsibility, almost a sacred responsibility, to the animals that share this planet with us..

Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country t….

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country..

The best way to catch a horse is to build a fence around it..

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment..

I'm just too busy living every day to really spend a lot of time thinking 'am I old?' I'm this age. I am in this moment and in this life..

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing..

Simplicity can intensify the emotion..

It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say..

Well I was born to run, to get ahead of the rest. And all that I wanted was to be the best Just to feel free and be someone I was born to be fast, I ….

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine..