If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

Passion is what convinced armies that had no chance to win - it's believing that something can happen. Reality is what you make it to be. And when you're the only one who can see the way the future is going to be, you can be the tool that bends, rips, shapes and paints the future the way you want it to be. That's true passion!

I've got friends in low places, where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away.

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

People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.

That old star that you been wishin' on is shining mighty bright, but it's the fire inside your heart that's gonna lead you to the light.

What comes from a book is knowledge. What comes from the heart is wisdom.