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

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

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.

I don't want to impress somebody, I want to move somebody. Say the most with the least.

There ain't no future in the past.

I've never been in the studio where it felt like I didn't have a voice. Whether I was co-producing or producing by myself, this community is the one place where I really see democracy at its purest.

At the end of the day, all people want to do is hear a great singer sing a great song. They don't care about what vocal changes it went through. You can't screw up a great song and a great singer.