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.

Just because as human beings, what we can't have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep.

Don’t worry. You may think you’ll never get over it. But you also thought it would last forever.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

Here I was again tonight forcing laughter, faking smiles Same old tired, lonely place

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.