Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.

I feel like they're different creatures, live and in the studio, but that's what makes it so interesting to me. If they didn't have any different shadings or colors, you might as well be a hologram or something.

Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.

I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction to what was happening in country music.

Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.