The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I connected to that in some way.

It's a pretty frantic world that we live in

When I started out, it was this sense of, "Let's put out a record and see what happens and see where you go and see how you feel and where we can take it." That was a very different world back then.

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.

God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I want to try it again and again, and a lot of times my fellow musicians have to hold me back and say, "Nah, I think we got it."

A dreamer born is a hero bred.