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

I am a country boy and proud of it.

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.

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.

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.

Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough.

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