My mother kept asking me, "When are you going to do a gospel album?" And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.

Oklahoma's always been good to me.

I've had several working-man songs that I like.

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.