I like the values in Flicka, and I wanted to do a movie my kids could see and be proud of.

Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.

Like I say, I'm always writing and if something sticks, it sticks. I get to write with great songwriters in town. Lori McKenna is one of my all-time favorite singer-songwriters who's ever walked the planet. I get to write with her. The Warren Brothers are friends of mine and I write with them all the time. Lance Miller is a great songwriter. Tom Douglas - you can't get any better than that. I write a lot of stuff but it's got to stick.

I think there are more people waiting to forgive me than I need to forgive them.

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

I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do.

Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.