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

I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home.

I am a country boy and proud of it.

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

Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie has been a struggle-and-a-half, I want to tell you. I stand here as a survivor, I want you to know, for all the parents out there.

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

I always like to challenge myself. I never want to be put into a box.