It would be fun to go back and see where all my songs stopped, because I think I'd have every number in the top 100. It never ceases to amaze me. It still hurts when one doesn't work, because you put your heart and soul into it.

There ain't no future in the past.

It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.

I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're in a truck.' It's just mind-numbing to me.

I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every song ever made.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.