It's an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It's just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you've got, and move on.

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.

Those people out there like good music. They don't stop and ask themselves, 'Is it country or rock and roll?' If they like it, they will tell you.

...when you put your life in a good place, good things follow.

I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts and things like that. I just think it was something I already knew, something I had experienced in another lifetime.

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.