Down to my last dime and coming apart at the seams. I'm messed up in Mexico, living on refried dreams.

I think country music is really one of the biggest genres of music out there and one the most successful genres.

The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.

When I die and I'm lucky enough or fortunate enough and brave enough throughout my life to get into Heaven and I see Octavia Spencer sitting there then all is good.

It’s innate in me to be a Democrat — a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There’s not a lot of those anymore. I’m not saying I’m right or wrong. That’s just the way I feel. The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country. The chasm is getting larger between haves and have-nots, and that’s something we need to close down a little bit.

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.

I don't even trust myself in my career much less giving somebody else advice.