Me and my band and crew have always lived by the code: 'Work hard, play harder.'

had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young.

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

I'm proud of the fact that I'm at a point in my career that if I want to take a little bit of a left turn and make an album that is more hushed, more acoustic and more personal, that I can do it.

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.

I work hard but I play hard.

I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things.