I'm a huge fan of Billy Idol. I spiked my hair every day like him in 7th and 8th grade.

I'm thinking of you, that's all I do, all the time. You're always the first and the last thing on this heart of mine. No matter where I go, or what I do, I'm thinking of you.

As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.

No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.

When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.

I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.

I'm always looking for things that make me kind of uncomfortable.