It doesn't really matter to me what the rest of country is doing. I'm not caught up in trying to make a record that sounds like everybody else. That, to me, is a record label's absolute biggest downfall.

My first record deal was an independent record deal back in 1995 or early 1996.

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

Sometimes you have to listen to other people, and see what the audiences want. That's what entertaining is about.

In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.

I'm big into fishing, but I've never been much of a hunter. I never was really raised around it a whole lot, so I never got a chance to do it a whole lot.

We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.