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

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

She's not perfect, but she tries so hard for me. And I thank God, that she isn't, cause how boring that would be.

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

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

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.