I've always stood up for country music.

To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

It's a scary word, 'cancer.'

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.

Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?