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

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 grew up in Louisiana, and I grew up with a dysfunctional family with some very serious abuse from my stepfather, who could be a very beautiful person on one hand and be terrible on the other, so it leaves your soul troubled as a child.

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

I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be.

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