When I was seven my parents divorced. My father went to Dallas. My mom fled to the shelter of my grandparents in a strange central Ohio town of 22,000, Wooster. When it looked like I was growing up to be a wimp I was forced to live with my father, which I did not want to do.

I bought a guitar when I was twenty. But I didn't write a song until I was 25 or 26. I never learned to play others songs. I learned to play my own songs while I was learning how to make them better.

I try every day and every night to find a movie or a TV show that I can watch, but I just can't make it past ten minutes of anything.

I believe that intermittent live performance has cut short the writing lives of touring musicians.

All of our sons and daughters ought to have the same opportunity to experience the joy and stability of marriage.

The institution of marriage holds society together. We can't replace the family.

If your heart is in love, you can do anything.

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.