Never settle for the path of least resistance

But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.

And for the past 10 years Ive been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, theyre all about that bottom line. So its nice to step out of that and hang out with a bunch of people who play music just because they love it, as you can imagine.

And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.

We have never seen a career like George Strait's in this business, and I venture to say we never will again. He has handled things amazingly well.

But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more than I do performing, because they are a whole group of people that do it because they love music.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.