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

I've always stood up for country music.

It's a scary word, 'cancer.'

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

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

I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.

Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.