When all is said and done, I'd never count the cost. It's worth all that's lost, just to see you smile.

I try not to worry about other people's music. But if there's one thing that I hear these days, it's that people try and put [music] down so tight that they take all the color out of it.

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

What are you doing son, you're gonna drive yourself insane. You'll never find the sunshine, when you're following the rain.

Sometimes I think as an artist you tend to go toward the heartbreak and the sadness because those are the deepest and heaviest emotions you can pull out as an entertainer and as a singer.

Some say it's too country, some say it's too rock n' roll. But it's just good music if you can feel it in your soul.

Love can sort of rebound and regrow and reinvent itself around a lot of things, but when somebody can't forgive themself for something, I think love sort of withers in that situation.