I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunities to have the career I've had.

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

Just because I'm country music don't mean I don't have a little bit a' soul down in there somewhere.

I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love.

I simply find that as a songwriter, my goal is to try to move people. And I feel that before I can move other people, I have to genuinely be able to move myself.

Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.