“I’d like to think that throughout my career whatever my current record is has 110% of my best.”

I keep a pretty tight grip on my schedule and I compare it a lot to a fireman’s – a four-on then four-off type of deal.

I want to keep my fan base supplied with a steady chain of music.

I couldn’t write a song to save my life. I wouldn’t say that I started to panic, but I was definitely getting frustrated. I couldn’t even cross a t or dot an i.

I think most performers are just lazy.

I still have a lot of passion for music, but I would quit it tomorrow if that’s what my family needed me to do. I’m sure I’d miss it, but it’s a job.

Once I made up my mind that music was what I wanted to do, I never looked back.

There might be some of them that don’t care. To me, it’s important that my fans know how much I appreciate them.

I just never gave anything else much thought after music. I just hope that I’m doing what God intended me to do, and that’s all.

I put everything in God’s hands, asking him to give me strength and understanding. I asked him to help me to be strong for my family and that he would continue to take care of us. One day, shortly after that, I woke up really inspired.

I always tell people that my primary job is being a dad and husband. Music is just what pays the bills.

I’ll work to maintain my work ethic out on the road, playing my shows, giving 110%, keeping God first, my family second, and treating my fans like royalty.

I’m living the dream. I’ve got a big tour bus, an incredible band, a big house, and a family that are all taken care of through my music. I’ve got a beautiful wife and three beautiful kids.

You should work at everything you do and try to perfect it as best you can.

Family is fun, way more fun than music.

I would rather have 100,000 fans for a lifetime than a million for a couple years.

There’s just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you’ve got something better than “Misery and Gin” by Merle Haggard, you’re beating a dead horse.

Rather than life just rolling over you, and you wake up and it’s Thursday, and what happened to Monday? Whatever the best part of my life has been, has been as a result of that remembering.

The best anti-aging product is a great, natural-looking hair color, especially when youre graying.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we’re all gonna get ugly.

If you enjoy your volunteering and charitable activities more than your career, it means your career is in serious need of an upgrade. In my opinion your career should be your best outlet for giving.

My best friend and I love to make fish faces.

The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we’re all going, “God, what a jerk I’ve been,” “How could I have married that guy?” or “How could I have done this or that?” With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, “It wasn’t all about them.”

My heart pounded. I felt flushed with disgust and irritation. Why must I always have such obstacles to my writing?