Oklahoma's always been good to me.

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

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.

I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.

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

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.

You just write about things that happen.