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.

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

There is no greater love than this. There is no greater gift that can ever be given. To be willing to die, so another might live -- there is no greater lover than this.

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

God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting.

The stories that have had the deepest impact on me and one of the reasons I was excited to finally get to write my story, it's when I can read the story of others who are following Christ, who are committed, but just are still on the journey. They haven't arrived, and can be honest about that process.

I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.