My fans are very forgiving. So are my wives and my kids.

I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days.

But if you think of all the people who don't like me, just think of all the millions who've never heard of me!

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

The life I love is making music with my friends.

(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience.

There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.