I am a country boy and proud of it.

Simplicity is the key to what I do.

When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say.

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.

The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.

No one can deny, this love I have inside, and I'll give it all to you, my endless love.