All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it.

I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.

I always try to get behind the guy steering the ship. That's the kind of guy I am.

You are like a hurricane, there's calm in your eyes, and I'm getting blown away.

Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away.

I see country music, I see people who take care of their own. You've got 75 year-old guys on the road. That's what I was put here to do, y'know, so I wanna make sure I surround myself with people who are gonna take care of me. 'Cause I'm in it for the long run.

We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image.