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.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou.

My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try.

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.

You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.

I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.