I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.

What God wants is to reveal himself more fully to us.

That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change.

I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.

I know a lot less about God, but the things I know about God, I know a whole lot more, for sure.

I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe.