I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.

Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past twelve but I don't care, it's 5 O'clock somewhere.

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

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

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

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.

The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important.