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 hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

Here you come again, looking better than a body has a right to.

I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

I'll never graduate from collagen.

There's nothing like white trash at the White House.