I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.

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

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

Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

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'.