I grew up in Louisiana, and I grew up with a dysfunctional family with some very serious abuse from my stepfather, who could be a very beautiful person on one hand and be terrible on the other, so it leaves your soul troubled as a child.

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

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.

One of the most memorable live performances of my career took place on the 2002 American Music Awards show when I had to the opportunity to sing with Elton John. I was moved by the way he played the piano onstage.

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.

I love producing. I have been producing some acts and starting a label.

I didn't want to play a rancher. I didn't want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away from that in the things I do. But I read the script and fell in love with it. As hard as I tried to say no, I couldn't.