When you find what you love, and you find people that will support you, you're living the dream whatever you do.

Just being from where I'm from, a little small town, I feel like I'm a good judge of character.

I remember this song by Clay Walker that came out in the '90s called 'This Woman and This Man,' and it was about breaking up, loss, the pain of moving on, and my parents were just getting divorced at the time, so I listened to it over and over again.

I wanna have the coolest merch.

I like my buddies to come out to shows on weekends, but they hardly ever get to any.

The fans are always wanting new music, and with as much as I love to write, I might as well give them the music while I've got it.

The older I get, the more special time with family gets.

I try to live every day and realize that there are so many folks working hard to try to get to where I am and how fortunate that I am.

When I left college, it broke my mom's heart, but I knew I had to be in Nashville. I knew that was the place you had to be in to become a better songwriter, and that's what I wanted to move there for and to ultimately get a record deal.

I've always wanted to treat people the way I want to be treated.

I was a business major, but the more I played music and the more I got into songwriting, I realized this is what I loved, but I kept asking myself, 'Is this what I'm supposed to do - move to Nashville?'

Asbury Park's a special place for me. It's where I really began playing.

To me, music is a river. I have lived my life beside the river. Every day, I get up and look at the river. I watch it and notice when it rises and falls.

I'm a Gaga-ite.

I never thought I'd be a, quote, 'rock & roll star.'

I visualize what I do before I do it. Visualizing makes me better.

The night before a show, I don't sleep. Really. I've been doing this for 30 years, and the night before a show, I still don't sleep.

Everybody calls me Big Man.

We had to play both ways on the field, so I was offensive center and defensive end.

When you go backstage at a Bruce Springsteen show, you don't see a circus.

Of course, you get exhausted. You want to pass out. I came close a couple of times. But you're filled with something, that feedback that comes from the audience.

It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing when you play these places. It's part of our history just gone.

The Philadelphia audiences, they're like our home crowd.

What you did, nobody wants to know about it, unless you did something exciting.