Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.

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.

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

She's got her God and she's got good wine, Aretha Franklin, and Patsy Cline.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

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.