If I was concerned about my legacy, there’s no way I would ever sit there [and be a reality-show judge]. Once your career becomes about some¬thing other than the music, then that’s what it is. I’ll never make that mistake.

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

I can't stand making records.

Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me.

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.

I have a new hobby and it's pretty much logging.

The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.