1- “You belong somewhere you feel free.”
2- “Sometimes, giving up your privacy is a little like going to the dentist and we have let him have access that no one’s ever had.”
3- “Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.”
4- “When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So you’ve got to know your audience. It’s kind of something that is a blessing and a curse in a way. You’re obligated to play some of that stuff that people know, but I don’t think that’s all you have to do.”
5-“God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.”
6- “If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.”
7- “The radio has so many rules, and songs don’t. You don’t necessarily write to a rule book unless you’re, like, just doing it professionally, which has never been my thing.”
8- “My hours get kinda backwards. Most of the time, we’re basing out of one town, flying out, doing the show, then flying back. And it’s a pace that no one would believe, really. Unless you’ve done it, you really can’t understand what it is. And if you’re not really experienced and know how to do it, you will fall.”
9- “No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.”
10- “It’s kind of a lonely work, because you just have to keep your pole in the water. I always had a little routine of going into whatever room I was using at the time to write in and just staying in there till I felt like I got a bite.”
11- “Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.”
12- “When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.”
13- “When I met Elvis, we didn’t really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sort of grunted my way. What stays with me is the whole scene. I had never seen a real mob scene before. I was really young and impressionable. Elvis really did look – he looked sort of not real, as he were glowing.”
14- “Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.”
15- “There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.”
16- “I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.”
17- “I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too.”
18- “The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn’t that bad! The writing came natural to me.”
19- “What I’ve learned about marriage: You need to have each other’s back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.”
20- “Even the losers get lucky sometimes!”
21- “Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.”
22- “It’s hard for me… If I don’t have a project going, I don’t feel like I’m connected to anything. I don’t even think it’s that healthy for me. I like to get out of bed and have a purpose.”
23- “I’m not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that’s become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.”
24- “You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free”
25- “There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.”
26- “If you don’t run, you rust.”
27- “When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.”
28- “Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.”
29- “Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.”
30- “I think it’s important to always offer something new.”
31- “I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.”
32- “You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.”
33- “Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.”
34- “Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.”
35- “In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I’m gonna stand my ground, and I won’t back down.”
36- “The music has to be affordable. It’s the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.”
37- “Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.”
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