I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

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

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

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!.

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

She's a yellow pair of running shoes, a holey pair of jeans. She looks great in cheap sunglasses, she looks great in anything. She's, "I want a piece of chocolate cake; take me to a movie." She's a, "I can't find a thing to wear." Now and then she's moody. She's a Saturn with a sunroof with her brown hair blowing. She's a warm conversation I wouldn't miss for nothing. She's a fighter when she's mad and she's a lover when she's lovin'.

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.