I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.

This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music.

We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus!.

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

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal

Someday I'm gonna be famous. Do I have talent, well, no. These days you really don't need it.

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.