And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert.

The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts..

Roy Orbison was one of the genuinely nicest persons I've ever known. With one of the most beautiful voices in the history of recorded music he could ….

I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday..

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself..

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end..

I'd rather be sorry for something I had done than for something I didn't do..

The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it..

I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My….

If God's got a favorite songwriter, I think it's John Prine..

Johnny Cash's face belongs on Mount Rushmore...I don't write as much as I did back when I was writing songs every day. I've come to know when I've go….

The world he saw was sadder than the one he hoped to find. But it wasn't near as lonesome as the one he left behind..

The heart is what matters most of all.

I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck..

You're the only one that you are screwin', when you put down what you don't understand..

I'll only live 'til I die.

I want you to know I'm an Army brat; I was a captain in the Army and my brother was a jet pilot in the Navy. So I support our troops; I identify with….

When they prove something wrong you believed in so long, you go crazy..

Bombing people for economic reasons is as horrible as killing a pregnant woman..

As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; ….

I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired. It looked li….