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

Country music fans are the best everywhere and they've always made me feel like I'm at home, no matter what zip code I'm in. I just want to thank them from the bottom of my heart for blessing me with such an incredible career that I truly enjoy.

You can raise her up a lady but there's one thing you just can't avoid.

I don't do the same show on any two nights.

I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.

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.

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