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.

They call them fools, who are unable to resist the slightest chance love might exist.

It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.

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.

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?

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.

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.