“If you don’t have a goal or purpose to strive for, I don’t think that you have much of a life. You’ve got to have something to do that you want to apply yourself to – that’s what living is all about.”

That’s the biggest problem existing in this country! People are always mixing up the word free and freedom. Free is something you get for nothin.’ Freedom is a responsibility.

You’ve got to stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything You’ve got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string

Never underestimate your fans; they’ll tell you exactly what they like.

You’re not challenging anyone else but yourself. I’d like to have a 300-pound bench, 500-pound deadlift, and a 400-pound squat.

The romantic stuff comes a lot easier when you’re experiencing true love. It feels better, it feels more natural to record love songs when you’re in love.

People are always asking what’s the secret of my success, and the answer is easy – at least for me. You have to have a strong inner drive.

Some sell their soul for the easy road. The devil’s always buying. I can’t count the ones I’ve known who fell right into line.

I was born by God’s dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.

Yes there’s a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there’s a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.

I’d like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.

We think freedom means do nothing, don’t be responsible for your actions…. I think its time for adult Americans to be responsible for themselves, to take back the responsibility of being a free nation.

Whatever you do today you’ve got to sleep with tonight.

Every day we encounter situations where we have to make a stand. Looking back, I could have not hand-picked a better song to be my first single.

I’m a machine freak. I just love it when you can get a big ol’ steel machine to do the most that it’s capable of doing.

There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.

How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?

How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

In Germany, an effort one thousandth the scale of the American was applied to the problem of producing atomic energy that would drive engines.

If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you’d say, “Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,” but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn’t apply to anybody that has a child.

Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.