Let the music play on would be my legacy.

Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

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.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.

By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.

My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.