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.

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

There ain't no future in the past.

This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

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