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

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.

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

Maybe, I want her to do anything she wants, but I hope her interest in singing stays high.

I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you're in a bad situation and it seems like it's the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it's not.

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.