The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't.

It's basically a city of songwriters and that's what gives it it's strength, that's what gives it its lasting ability. You've got people making all different kinds of music and that's what attracts me to Nashville as Music City.

Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

The only time I ever appeared in the Enquirer was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I’m not much of a wild child.