I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

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.

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

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.

A great hang is mandatory. But in all of my years as a traveling musician, on a whole it's been pretty damn magical. There have been a couple duds along the way, but most time, I'm in awe of the guys who want to play on my records.

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