I love being a gypsy and getting on the bus with the band making sounds for the people who love and enjoy a night of Americana and good times.

Be exceptional. Make tremendous efforts to be extraordinary. What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Just make sure you do so.

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

I just don't conform very well.

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

I feel like records are moments in time, a modern moment that feels right then and it found its way to us then, that minute. We can all try and repeat records we have made that had success, but it's not possible.

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?