I get outside a lot. I am a huge champion of physical activity. It's so important.

I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I'm not trying to make other people do what I do.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

Being in two full-time rock bands is pretty impossible. I love to tour but I have a dog and I want to see him. And, being a songwriter, you have to have experiences and do things. You can't just go on tour all the time, otherwise you get nothing to write about. It's finally at a point where the balance is perfectly right.

People get strange about whether you've written your own songs, which seems really stupid considering that, especially in Country Music, it's about oral tradition and passing things on and the songs weren't meant to be played by one person and then forgotten.

I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

If you want to be noticed as a drop of water, why would you move to the ocean?