A sucker punch came flying from somewhere in the back. As soon as we can see clearly with our big black eye, we're going to light up your world like the fourth of July.

Somebody said they seen her heading out of town, now she ran away with a rodeo clown.

There ain't no justice, laws of nature rule this land. Better hide your horses, bury your whiskey.

Hate me if you want to, love me if you can.

Through the years I've accumulated this big bag of songs. When I go out I do close to two hours, and it's all just attitude - and up-tempo. I've accumulated so many of those types of songs now that the show just gets off with a bang, and I'll only do two or three ballads the whole show.

I feel an obligation to those people who are willing to go lay their lives on the line. These are the same people that when we call on them, and we 100 percent agree as a country ... in our lifetime there's gonna be an event take place ... just like when 9/11 happened, everybody wanted to bring them to justice. When we called on the troops, they went in.

My deal will always be one solo performance-nominated or not. Not some thrown together rock tribute.