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

Today we've learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists.

Your kids can say some cruel things to you at times. For example, Nicole, Miles and Sofie are standing there in the room and I'm dressed to kill in my own mind. They'll say to me, 'Dad, you're not going out there looking like that are you?' If that doesn't kill a star, I don't know what does!

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

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.

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.