There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

The crazy thing about it is she'd take him back, but the fool in him that walked out is the fool who just won't ask.

Our future is not unpredictable, our future is simply the result of choices we have made.

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.

Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

Mistakes don't scare me or bother me. If I feel like I made the same mistake twice, then I feel like I've really screwed up. But if I make one mistake and learn from it, hey, to me in the game of life it's just as important to know what doesn't work as what does. So I think mistakes are a good thing.

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.