Simplicity is the key to what I do.

I am a country boy and proud of it.

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

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.

All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

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