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

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.

I ain't as good as I'm gonna get, but I'm better than I used to be.

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.

I think of myself as a serious artist. Sometimes you can get in your head too much about that and forget that you have to have fun. I've been guilty in my career about that at times. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought I didn't want anybody else to have a hit with it!

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