You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

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.'

If I knew what I was doing, I'd be doing it right now. I would be the best damn poet, silver words out of my mouth. My words might not be magic, but they cut straight to the truth. So if you need a lover and a friend, baby, I'm in.

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.

You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.

I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.