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

Man, I didn't think I stood a chance. I mean, she was way out of my league.she still is.

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

When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

I don't think that the universal themes of love, compassion, and forgiveness (are present). (You're) searching constantly for the next step, the next level and consciousness in your spirituality, who you are as a human being and what you contribute to society or what God means to you is always a course everyone goes on.

I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.