When I'm singing a song on stage, I hate hypocrites. If you don't put yourself in that lyric and emote and be what that lyric says that you are, then you're just going through the motions and you're being hypocritical. I just take that same approach with acting. I just take the dialogue and I emote it and become that. I use the same technic.

George Jones was my friend and I loved him.

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night after one of my concerts.

There's a gratification that comes from performing in front of a live audience, and you can't replicate that with anything else. In the studio, the creation part of this business is fun. But, when you see the fans letting you know that they enjoy what you're doing, that's why I keep doing what I do.

If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like dancing, I do. If I don't, I don't.