You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never.

There ain't a woman in the world that wants to hear the word yes when she asks if you think that she looks chubby in that dress. And if she cooks all day you better eat it with a smile; it doesn't matter if it tastes just like bad gravy on a Goodyear tire.

I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase... So Im always looking for that angle in my own work.