My fans have been very loyal to me, so I want 'em into the mix every song. I don't want 'em having breaks on stuff I'm trying to push on them.

If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, Is that a song? I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say which of these things do I want to record.

I sobered up and I got to thinking, girl, you ain't much fun since I quit drinking.

Don't apologize for being patriotic. Support the troops

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

Things use to be real nice, til they got out of hand. Since they moved in, they call themselves the Taliban.

I've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.