She's a yellow pair of running shoes, a holey pair of jeans. She looks great in cheap sunglasses, she looks great in anything. She's, "I want a piece….

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity..

... there are a lot of shredders in country music - Redd Volkaert, Brent Mason, Dan Huff .. and guys like that.

I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in genera….

Pilgrims travel to Jerusalem to see the Holy Land, and the foundations of their faith. People go to Washington, D.C. to see the workings of governmen….

Albert Lee and I have become real close friends, and he comes out anytime I'm in the L.A. area, and he'll sit in for the whole show ! ... we've got a….

Playing live is about going for it .. it's about bringing it ... you should see a bunch of people trying out stuff, actually performing, instead of l….

Jackass millionaires, hey, hey, Hollywood, here we come..

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody..

When every memory has been made and the pages start to fade. And every prayer you ever prayed is heaven bound. When you think the ride is over, you'r….

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark..

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is..

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone..

You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it..

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life..

I have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun - going to movies and all that stuff. It's a painfully normal life!.

This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music..

Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. ….

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it..

Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never..

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award..