"What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it."

"Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness."

"When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas."

"I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned."

"It is a enduring truth that we do not remember the passing of hours, but the resonance of moments."

"Do not wait for favorable winds; take the oars and row toward your horizon. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a steadfast truth that we do not remember the passing of hours, but the resonance of moments."

"The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'"