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.

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.

People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the same thing.

You stand by me, and you believe in me like nobody ever has. When my world goes crazy, you're right there to save me. You make me see how much I have.

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

I love my wife more than anything in the world, but boy when she had our babies, it quadrupled. There's just something about the connection.

I think the best thing, or the greatest thing my girls have going for them, is having their mother as a role model.