I want to spend more time with my family.

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.

There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.

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

My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

He had a voice that was the truth, raw and unfiltered. You can't get any realer, any more tortured or any more alive. No one can do what George Jones does, and that's why 50 years later, he still stands out as one of the greatest singers in any genre of all time.