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The crazy thing about it is she'd take him back, but the fool in him that walked out is the fool who just won't ask.
No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.
I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
How you ever gonna know if you're the best? How you ever gonna know what you believe in, if you don't put it to the test?
I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
Sometimes you just can't be afraid to wear a different hat. If Columbus had complied, this whole world might still be flat.
A fan's love for an artist is so deep, I know I will go whatever depths it takes to learn about people that I'm in love with.
In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.
Heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just beyond the fear. No, heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just for us to find it here.
There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
If my time on earth were through and she must face the world without me, is the love I gave her in the past gonna be enough to last?
I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
That old star that you been wishin' on is shining mighty bright, but it's the fire inside your heart that's gonna lead you to the light.
I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
You were standin' way too close to see it fall apart. And there were things you couldn't hear, 'cause you were listening with your heart.
If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that I have burned.
Once you've figured out how to wait on people and clean toilets, it makes you very mindful of how you treat the people who are serving you.
I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward.
With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.
It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become these lovebugs that come back. It's just so sweet.
I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part.
There's a moment that we all come to, in our own time, in our own space, where all that we've done, we can undo, if our heart's in the right place.
I've lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed.
I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!
I don't know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that's new, and hopefully will be fun, and there's plenty of stuff out there to cut.
I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.
I spend most of my time at concerts hoping for that one second that the artist looks at me, I look at the artist, and that's when I get to say, 'Thank you.'
I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike.
Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!
The cool thing about passion is that no matter how good or bad a day you're having, tomorrow's going to be better because passion finds some way of doubling itself.
My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.
You see in all my life I've never found what I couldn't resist, what I couldn't turn down. I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.
In advertising, you have a small window to say the most you can. That's what songwriting is. The difference is, you get to put the leaves on the trees and colour 'em in.
That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen.
I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
And now, I'm glad I didn't know the way it all would end, the way it all would go. Our lives are better left to chance, I could've missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the Dance.
She's sun and rain, she's fire and ice, a little crazy, but it's nice. And when she gets mad, you best leave her alone, cause she'll rage like a river then she'll beg you to forgive her.
Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
I'm gonna stay an album guy. In fact, concept albums are really blowing my mind right now, because if you want to promote an album, think about it - a concept album might be the way to go.
Passion is something you'd easily die for. It's something you'd be honored to die for. It's something that's stronger than any machine man can create. It actually gives a mortal person wings.
I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.
My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.
While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
We're just a real dirty band. We're raw, and we're rough. None of us are top-scale, top-line musicians. But I tell you what, you get your top-line musicians and see if they can entertain like us.