I'm not dead. I mean, I may be getting older, but I'm not dead!

If you'd like to reach me, leave me alone.

I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?

It wasn't until I moved to Nashville that I realized what an amazing community it is. It's the thing I've been missing my whole career, the feeling of being able to sit around with a guitar and have people know each other's songs and know songs from people who've influenced all of us. When I moved here pretty early on Vince Gill started calling me to do guitar pulls, and I thought, gosh, this is just like heaven on earth down here.

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.