Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie. The new ones are exciting because they're fresh. But if it's not that, if the story is not what you get into, maybe it's the crowd response. You hit the first chords of 'She's In Love With The Boy' and 20,000 people start to scream, you're pretty motivated. You get what you need. And it's a great story. It works.

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

I always want to sing, but I don't always want to be trying to have No. 1 records. I don't think you can do it forever. I don't know what the time span of that is going to be. I want to sing because I want to sing.

I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.

People who truly love to sing have to do it all the time.

There's an energy about Nashville that I love and I miss. And it's so awesome right now. It has a new energy that's so cool.

Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn't feel right.