Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.

shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us

For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.

Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.

Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?

You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.