I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.

I have my songs ready in my head, gather the guys, play it and then let them go with it. [The music] finds its way, we do what the music says to do......the song is the producer.

I have always wanted to see what the vibe was like and I was right It's on the Vermillion Bayou.

I'm the audience first, and if you're gonna be a great performer, you need to be a great audience. So, I do music for me first, and whoever likes it likes it, and whoever doesn't -- well, it's just not for them.

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?

I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country.

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