Winning the ACM, winning the CMA, my first time on the Opry and having Grammy nominations were all a big deal to me.

I would never do anything that makes the perception of country music worse.

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.

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

If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of that, too.' That can be tough to resist.

Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can't be objective.

It's important that adults get along with each other for the child's sake, and that is our situation.