Inspiration for my music just comes from you know my life experiences.

Well-written words are music.

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.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.

For me great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

Music is my shining light my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

When people in stadiums do the Wave it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion pass time and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.

You know the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

I just want to keep writing music.

I don't want to make niche-oriented music.

I write music every day.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song if I choose to not look inside myself to write music I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

Pop music will never be low brow.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Music fathoms the sky.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music they decided in advance that they don't like it.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music and you provide the silence.

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces as opposed to what I see it being now which is a way for me to actually communicate and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly but music-everything is based on music. No I'll never stop my music.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care but at Christmas it always is young the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair and its soul full of music breaks the air when the song of angels is sung.

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals and fairs and karaoke contests and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.