I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it.

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.

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

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

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

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