You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.

It's time for artists to take their music back.

It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.

I wasn't encouraged to write just stand there and sing and I never thought I was a writer. I always figured if I couldn't write something as good as "He Stopped Loving Her Today," then what's the point?

Music should be poor. Music should be with out air conditioning. That's just the way it is.

Now I can make a thousand dollars a night at a club.

The world has changed a lot since I started making records.I used to go into a studio and there were songs there, chosen for me to see if I liked them. I wasn't encouraged to write.