When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me.

I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.

My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.

I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.

Tangle me up like Grandma's yarn.

I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff and take stuff gradually.