I'm usually just enjoying life..

Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past twelve but I don't care, it's 5 O'clock somewhere..

The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important..

If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff every….

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have so….

I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And rad….

The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it..

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family pla….

A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something th….

I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that..

A country song is a song about life..

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy..

Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the….

I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that..

"After 17" is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of my life. If you listen to that so….

The fan base that I've had all these years has come along. Some of them are not as plugged into the digital world, so they want to go out and buy the….

Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin' against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or d….

I'm hooked on my baby's love, there ain't nothing in the jug this strong..

I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself..

You just write about things that happen..

I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles..