My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

I have a good attitude. And I was born with a happy heart. I'm always looking for things to be better.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

One of the things I'm real proud of is I just made a deal with 20th Century Fox, and I've got my own production company now. I'm developing some television and movies for other people because I have a lot of fresh new ideas. To write is what I love the most.

Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. All of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times. They're the songs that last through time.