“When you're writing with an artist or for an artist, you have to help them serve their vision. That's the cool part about writing songs. There are no rules.”

“It's man's work. My dad was gone at 4:30 in the morning and home at 8 at night, and he worked underground, and the last mine he worked in was 26 inches high in a lot of places. He liked the enginee...”

“Anytime that another artist or a critic that is well-respected says something nice about you, you're always thankful and hope that you can live up to that.”

“I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'”

“It's such a strange marriage, a song and someone that sings it. When that works, it really works, and when it doesn't, it doesn't.”

“Whether you like modern incarnations of what country radio hits are, or you like what I'm doing, or you like something really off in folk, poetry Americana land, it's all just music, man. If you li...”

“This world has need of song and sword.”

“Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.”

“I've passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was offered a feature on a Christina Aguilera song and I turned it down. It just wasn't right. She's cool, ...”

“Not everyone may not think the way you do.”

“I think you're wrong.""Think what you like.”

“To think, to think, even with a split second left - to think was the only hope.”

“Where there is a will, there is a way.”

“Love will find its way through all languages on its own.”

“Sometimes just when I say hello the right way, I'm like, 'Whoa, I'm so cool.'”