Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.
I always like to challenge myself. I never want to be put into a box.
My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.
All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.
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.
The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.