I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.

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

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

I am a country boy and proud of it.

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.

Let the music play on would be my legacy.

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