I've had great fans, and they've been so loyal over the years.

I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

This is the kind of problem you want to have! Country radio has been great to me my whole career. I can't thank those folks enough.

I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.

Even though I've been doing it for so long, I still feel fresh. Even when I walk out on stage, I still feel pretty much the same as I've always felt.

Swing is my favorite kind of music.