“#5SecondRule. When it comes to goals, dreams, and changing your life, your inner wisdom is a genius. Your goal-related impulses, urges, and instincts are there to guide you. You need to learn to bet on them.” 

“Dying before you’ve actually pushed yourself to live.” 

“Whatever is happening right now, this is it. This is your life. And it’s not going to begin again. You can’t change the past, but in five seconds you can change your future.” 

“If you’ve ever wondered why it’s so hard to make yourself do the things that you know will solve your problems and improve your life, the answer is simple. It’s your feelings.” 

“locus of control.” The more that you believe that you are in control of your life, your actions and your future, the happier and more successful you’ll be. There” 

“it’s not the big moves that change everything—it’s the smallest ones in your everyday life that do.” 

“Life is not a one and done sort of deal. You've got to work for what you want.

“the end of the day, you are going to need to do more than think if you want to change your life.” 

Life is not a one and done sort of deal. You've got to work for what you want.

“IN any area of your life that you want to change, adopt this rule. Just do the things that you don’t want to do.” 

“Every phase of your life and career will require a different you. Using the Rule, you’ll become the person you’re meant to become in this next phase of your life.” 

“Facebook is nothing but heavily packaged “Kodak moments” that bear no relation to how people really live.” 

“Life is gritty and hard and then suddenly it is brilliant and amazing.” 

“Change your decisions and you’ll change your life. And what will change your decisions more than anything? Courage.” 

I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!

Getting on the bus and touring was my life. And when that was not around, I felt myself a bit lost at times, because that was all I had.

I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

Day after day you find a way to make this grown man cry.

Life is about holding on and letting go.

Everybody needs somebody sometimes.

If ever I could love I think it could be with you If ever thought I found somebody so true I wonder if you feel The same way that I do If ever I could love I think it could be with you

The records in the house I really remember were, well, Glen Campbell's 'Wichita Lineman' and 'Galveston.' Even as a kid, I knew these songs were glorious. My dad also had records by Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Waylon Jennings, and then there was also the Eagles and Don Henley. Anything Texas, which includes Don Henley, was big.

Red carpets are pretty unpredictable. You can go from one person asking you what you're wearing to the next person asking you about the situation in Haiti. It's the extreme juxtaposition, and some of the questions can throw me!