When I get all focused on songwriting, I get into all the marketing and promotion that we do to make it happen. Then the right song comes along and blows it all out of the water. The right song will do it for you every time.

I'm not a Republican, and I'm not a Democrat.

I do have to step out and take time to let people know that I'm Ronnie Dunn and not Brooks and Dunn.

Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought.

During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.

What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.

I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.