Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

I have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun - going to movies and all that stuff. It's a painfully normal life!

... there are a lot of shredders in country music - Redd Volkaert, Brent Mason, Dan Huff .. and guys like that

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.