Every time I go into the studio, it’s some next level, man

My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics. Put together, the lyrics, tune and my voice strive to take the songs to the next level.

The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn’t mind it if I didn’t.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

The most overrated virtue in life is ‘niceness,’ and the main advantage of America over Europe is that it has fewer ‘nice’ people.

Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man’s or a woman’s shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being’s day, week, or life.

In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.

If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next

If you can’t say anything nice, then don’t say anything at all

Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil And the one word that brings the infinite to the doo

I stay in my lane, but I always try to graduate to the next level, you know what I’m saying. I stay hungry.