I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.

I'm grateful when anybody can start to have his or her limited perception of the genre open up a little bit. There's a lot of great music in the country genre that doesn't get heard because people say, 'Well, I don't like country.'

Youre always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully theyre all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadnt done on the first one.

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.

Days go by I can feel 'em flying like a hand out the window in the wind!

I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.