Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.

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.

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields. ... I'm a country songwriter and we write cry-in-your-beer songs. That's what we do. Something that you can slow dance to...I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad. ... Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.