Sometimes you just can't be afraid to wear a different hat. If Columbus had complied, this whole world might still be flat.

Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

How you ever gonna know if you're the best? How you ever gonna know what you believe in, if you don't put it to the test?

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.

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.

What I do is so this world will know that it will not change me.