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

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.

[My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a mining disaster on a shift that he wasn't working. And he was in a collapse where his brother-in-law was killed very near him in the same section.

Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.

Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies of those kind of hillbilly hymns - I used to refer to them - because they were not Southern gospel as much as they were passed down from Scottish Welsh Protestant hymnals.

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

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