When you ask a songwriter, "What's your favorite song?" he goes, "The next one."

Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.

A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.

You can't define the ache that's in George's voice. It's just something inherently him. It doesn't need definition. It doesn't need clarification. It doesn't need a lot of things. You just sit back and appreciate it. It's just greatness.

I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.

There ain't no future in the past.

I don't chase what everyone else is looking for. Being creative is all about you.