I feel my job as an artist is to drive people to country radio. That's my job as a country artist. So these streaming places, especially these on-demand streaming places, where you can just push a button and hear it as many times as you want, like YouTube, any of that stuff, that's taking all the ears away from country radio.

When we all can worship from our own kind of pew, then we shall be free.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

Music keeps you eternally young. It just does. What I love about it now is touring without the guilt. Now it's like nothing is being held back. You get to eat mashed potatoes with both hands instead of one. It's fantastic.

I've lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed.

But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire, cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.