When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are

So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others

I'm not afraid to go out on a limb, style-wise or with lyrics. I don't ever want to be afraid to cut those types of songs because radio might not play it.

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

Background vocals during her song "I Hope You Dance" .....'Time is a wheel in constant motion always, rolling us along. Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder, where those years have gone.'

A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things.