My songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way they were recorded is the old Nashville way ... they sound as country or more country than a lot of things that are on country radio.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

The king is gone but he's not forgotten

As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk.

Mothers need to know what they are feeding their children. They need the freedom to make educated choices at the market.

I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.

One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.