I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.

You're as close to heaven as I'll ever be.

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.

We're very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we've learned.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

Most people think it's the other way around: that time is going faster and we're doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we're cramming so much into it.