I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

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

I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value.

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

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

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.

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