I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't eve….

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me..

It's a scary word, 'cancer.'.

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..

Flesh is weak, but love is strong..

I've always stood up for country music..

Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love.

To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever..

I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like..

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..

Oklahoma's always been good to me..

Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words a….

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..

What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old car….

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

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'm usually just enjoying life..

A country song is a song about life..

There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children..

I've had several working-man songs that I like..

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….