You almost felt sorry for the devil cause heaven knows he didn't have a prayer, when Mama prayed.

To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.

I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

There's a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what's good and fair and lay it all to waste. And that darkness covers everything in sight, until it meets a single point of light.

I was in church a little bit as a very young kid, but, as they say in the South, 'it didnt take.' None of it took with me.

There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.

You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.