There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

If someone asks you to run the 100 yard dash as fast as you can, you'll run the 100 dash as fast as you think you can. But if you put someone along side you who runs a little faster, you are going to run faster - whoa - I better step it up a little bit. I do things even I didn't know I was capable of.

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done.

I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.

It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.