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.
All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.
Soul is a feeling, not a color.
Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.
I am a country boy and proud of it.
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.