Sometimes I think as an artist you tend to go toward the heartbreak and the sadness because those are the deepest and heaviest emotions you can pull out as an entertainer and as a singer.

As an actor, you can't say, "I'm going to try to be cool at all cost when I do this," because that's the opposite of what you need to do as an actor.

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.

There's a tear in his eye that refuses to fall. If it would land on me, that would say it all.

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

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.

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.