Since I was a kid I just wanted to be in Nashville.

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.'

Getting on the bus and touring was my life. And when that was not around, I felt myself a bit lost at times, because that was all I had.

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.

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.

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

It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone.