Every song that I start to write, I wonder if I'll be able to write it.

Well I was born to run, to get ahead of the rest. And all that I wanted was to be the best Just to feel free and be someone I was born to be fast, I was born to run .

The best way to catch a horse is to build a fence around it.

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from.