I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970's.

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

I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head, don't sit down and try to write a song. You know, go mow the lawn...My songs speak for themselves.

I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.

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.