I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.

I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life.

Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened.

It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.

Without God, I don't see how folks cope.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know you'll have to live with all the choices that you make.

I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.