“Tonight I’m stepping lightly and I’m feeling no pain.”

Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true? Or is it something worse?

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock’n’roll band.

Show a little faith, there’s magic in the night.

Outside the street’s on fire in a real death waltz between what’s flesh and what’s fantasy.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don’t have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don’t deny anything, I don’t advocate anything, I just live with it.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he’s sure of.

You’ve got to learn to live with what you can’t rise above.

The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

Two hearts are better than one.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

You can’t shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.

Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night’s busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.

I feel at home in places I’ve never been.

I can’t keep quiet of all that I’m feeling so I won’t.

I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

And although the strands of your soul feel weary today, your worth remains the same – you are graceful amidst pain.

The most peace I’ve ever felt was from letting you go.

Poetry is a feeling, a feeling of healing.

Feelings you could never explain. That’s what poetry is.

One breathe. One-touch. One kiss. And I feel. I feel alive.