The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have.

First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn’t question any of his motives or decisions at the time.

The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I’m replaying an event through a song.

I’ll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I’ll be performing at the Grand Palace.

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

I’m also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there’s some kind of good karma right now.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

The one thing I seek above all else is understanding. Sometimes I’m so frustrated and I don’t get it. But I’m lucky to have a good management team and people around me who explain things...

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It’s laid out for you. It’s just up to you to walk it.

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

I’m more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you’re like, “What?”

I’ve been using kind of a traditional metal guitar sound, a traditional hard-rock and metal guitar sound. That’s what the trio thing is about.

I realized later on that a lot of times I’d go back to Colorado to hide from all the mayhem in San Francisco so I could get songs written.

Know your power.

My father was always getting excited about something. It’s genetically inside me somewhere.

What my home life is like now is great.

The reunion we did the summer before last was really good. It was the first time that we had a really good time and made money together.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

Rock n’ Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That’s what rock n’ roll should...

I find you get out of people what you put into them.

I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.

At home I’m just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.

When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down.