If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

The world is my stage. I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.

You can't just wish to be a millionaire; you have to figure out how to earn it.

the magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball

Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.