I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.