I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.

I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

Control success before it controls you.

Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.

I'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.

I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.