Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel. Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I'm making.

The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.

I've always stood up for country music.

If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.

Oklahoma's always been good to me.

Flesh is weak, but love is strong.