Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.

Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities

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.

I have a lot faith in the younger generation of music lovers. Youth isn't living in the past; if somebody tells them that there's something better than what they have, they're going to check it out. And if they like it, they're going to get it. I'm not worried about the youth. Young people aren't just looking back, they are also looking forward.

I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.

We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it It’s not that digital is bad or inferior, it’s that the way it’s being used isn’t doing justice to the art. The MP3 only has 5 percent of the data present in the original recording. … The convenience of the digital age has forced people to choose between quality and convenience, but they shouldn’t have to make that choice.

This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.