What I have seen in the past 10 years of traveling- performing at a church one day and a casino the next- is that a lot of people in the church want to be entertained, and people in casinos want to be ministered to. That's hard to understand, but I see a hunger in the world that I don't see in the church.

I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums.

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.

The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.

Country's hip; it's cool music.

Great music is great music, period.

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.