(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.

Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.

God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere.

Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The regulations needed to change their status to "food animals" would cripple every aspect of the horse industry as we know it. Plus, it would be wrong.

Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out.