There's times I'd rather kill you than listen to your honesty.

It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.

You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.

If you want to know how important Portland is to me, there's no Saturday night gigs here. They weren't available. So our whole thing coming into Portland, which is going to be different from anybody else, any other city, is every night is Saturday night.

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

I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen.

Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses.