“I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway.”

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

I think I’ve always approached making albums pretty much the same way.

The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don’t need, what wears you out and what’s important.

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it’s not that much time away from home.

But most of the ones I’ve ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I’ve enjoyed that.

Just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it’s going to take to get you on the radio.

Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I’ve ever had has been about 50-50 songs I’ve written or co-written and other people’s songs.

I don’t like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.

Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They’re really not.

You just write about things that happen.

Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

What I enjoy doing more than anything is.

All you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there.

I think every album you have, especially if it’s done well, you feel like you’re competing with yourself.

They’re just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It’s that way everywhere.

Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route.

The Law of the Generic: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name.

I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

I saw a lot of people taking the wrong routes, coming up as a kid, just doing the wrong things.

Everyone has a different route to success, recognition, and peace. Don’t be afraid to move instinctually.

No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.