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

When I'm onstage I just want to feel as comfortable as I possibly can.

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)."

I took a complete year off the road, but a big part of that year was making 'The Big Revival.' I needed that down time just so I could concentrate. The one thing that starts it all for us is the music. That's what you create in the studio. That's where the magic happens.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

I have 120 employees on the road every day, and about 30 other employees off the road.

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.