My golf score is really bad. I don't know. I'm definitely not a good golfer. Off the tee box, I can drive it about 275, and I'm in the fairway about 99% of the time. It's my next shot that needs work.

Obviously when you're making music, you want it to get out to as many people as possible. You want to reach as many people as you can.

Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are referenced in '94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days, and it makes me smile every time I hear it.

No matter what you do, you're going to have people who have something to say about something you do. You can't please anybody.

If it takes you a year to cut a record, I don't know, you need to find something else to do. It really shouldn't take that long.

You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.

I don't really think that audiences are that much different. I think that a fan is the same whether you are from here or from Japan - you come to a show because you like the music. I don't really see much of a difference anywhere.