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There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs.
Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it.
I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks.
When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.
In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.
From a young age, I saw and placed importance on spirituality within religion.
Right now it seems like the girls are drawing more attention to country music.
Dreams do come true, believe always. I dreamt every night of becoming a singer
I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week.
There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.
It is easy to mistake being ready for a wedding with being ready for marriage.
Love is given to us as a time, but to keep it always, we must make it a place.
The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.
God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.
That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.
There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar.
The hardest thing to learn in the game of love is when to fold a winning hand.
At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.
Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.
If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever.
I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.
I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.
Loving someone who doesn't love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport.
I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her.
I'm not that big, physically. I'm just big where it counts - I got a big heart!
Each breath I breathe is one more chance to share my love with those around me.
I am not an emotional type of guy. But I follow my emotions more than my logic.
I like to party at Christmas. We always have a duck, which my brother prepares.
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music.
If you don't deal with your emotions, one day your emotions will deal with you.
I didn't start singing with my eyes open until I was 19 - that's how shy I was!
The risks are 'How country can you go?' rather than 'How rock can you take it?'
My first record deal was an independent record deal back in 1995 or early 1996.
It’s my failure to sound like my heroes that’s allowed me to sound like myself.
New tech almost always looks dumb right before it completely changes your life.
I can't say I have always been fashionable because we all have hits and misses.
I'm thinking about a few weeks in Montreal to work with a producer I met there.
You can do some serious subway flirting before you realize the guy is homeless.
A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.
I don't believe you really know God if you do not recognize His sense of humor.
It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.
It's hard, sometimes, when nothing's stopping you, to know what's stopping you.
It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time.
I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel.
The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.
I'm discovering that everybody is a closet quotesmith. Just give them a chance.
The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope — or at least give it 48 hours.
The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.
Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.