[My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends. And that music was Country Music.

I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable, then you win.

Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made.

Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

Try but don't try too hard. Just try hard enough, and things will go better.

If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do it.

Every now and then I'll get seduced by the idea of money, and I'll take a stab at that...and I fall flat on my ass. I've never written a lasting song with that mindset. It doesn't work.