I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.

What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.

No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.