And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive.

At the end of the day, the Grammys are about recognizing genres that are making an impact.

I don't want to impress, I want to inspire.

Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.

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

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.'

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