With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.

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

So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.

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 never aspired to be up front. When I was a kid, I didn't ever look in the mirror with a hairbrush going, "Hey, I'm Elvis!"