People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

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

It's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes.

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

I need one good honky tonk angel to turn my life around.

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.

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