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 get into each thing I do, to the point where nothing else matters. I guess I'm an extremist.

I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

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.

On one side the government, the other side the mob.

With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.