I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted..

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time..

As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me..

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….

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

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..

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….

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

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

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

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..

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..

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….

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….

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

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

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..

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

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….

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.