My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

It's pretty unhealthy to obsess over what people think about you.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!

Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me the time to write songs.

I'll bet she's beautiful, that girl he talks about, and she's got everything that I have to live without... He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar, the only one who's got enough of me to break my heart. He's the song in the car I keep singing; don't know why I do.

I always have to be writing.