I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

After 'Mosaic,' I think a lot of people didn't know what my next record was going to be. And that's what I love. I just love doing music because I'm not going to follow the patterns and formulas of Music Row.

I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.

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.

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.