It was satisfying to take a risk and see it pay off.

I'll admit I'm a workaholic.

Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone.

One word, that's all you said and something in your voice caused me to turn my head. Your smile just captured me.

My life can be insanely complicated sometimes, and there's a certain simplicity that I crave.

What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide

I do sing about drinking, but it's in a party way. I don't sing about drinking in a drowning-my-sorrows way, like in George Jones's "If Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)."