“If we are going to do anything significant with life, we sometimes have to move away from it- beyond the usual measurements.”

Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.

We must occasionally follow visions and dreams.

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

I used to dance, but now I only move.

Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.

I always just want to move along to the next step.

Successful people don’t have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

The kind of job doesn’t matter. The length of time on the job doesn’t matter… If you work hard and do your best, you’ll be recognized and move onward.

I think, when all bands start, when you’re on your first album you have the benefit of hoovering up people who genuinely come across the music and really like it, but also those sort of ‘floating voters’ who just like pop music when they’re young.

Mindfulness has never been more important considering how the events of the world move in such an accelerated, frantic time.