Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.

I just remember standing there, singing with the headphones on and the strings playing, just how wonderful that felt. But we so rarely got to go out and do it. Obviously, we don't carry a 70-80-piece orchestra with us when we do shows.

I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.