My first love, you're every breath that I take, you're every step I make

Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

When will we ever learn, there's nowhere else we can turn.

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

Today we've learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists.

Your kids can say some cruel things to you at times. For example, Nicole, Miles and Sofie are standing there in the room and I'm dressed to kill in my own mind. They'll say to me, 'Dad, you're not going out there looking like that are you?' If that doesn't kill a star, I don't know what does!