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

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

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

I think the whole world is dying to hear someone say, 'I love you.' I think that if I can leave the legacy of love and passion in the world, then I think I've done my job in a world that's getting colder and colder by the day.

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

Let the music play on would be my legacy.

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.