Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.

There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most part have always been heavily rooted in reality. The first artists were the people next door. They would sing on their porch or in their living room or at a barn dance. They sang about what they knew, and a lot of that was drinking.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

You want a little talent on that?

You shape your own destiny.