Everybody's career is different. In this new age of being able to talk to the whole world at once, the possibilities are staggering, really, to be able to do things yourself. But I've always enjoyed my relationship with the record company.

Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop.

I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.

When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.

My favorite Aggie joke? I'm sorry I don't understand the question

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

Home is where my horse is.