If I found out some gal was trying to steal my guy, I'd want to give her a black eye! Instead, I wrote this song. At the time I was writing each song [on this album], you could figure out the frame of mind I was in by listening closely. With every song I've ever recorded, I'm in it. I wouldn't write about it if I wasn't in it.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.

I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.