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

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.

If it's a real dream it's uncrushable.

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

Someone said one time, 'If your marriage isn't your priority, you're not married,' and I thought, for me that's so true. So as long as I keep her as a priority, everything else sort of seems to work. And when I don't keep it as a priority, it's ... Jenga.

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

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.