The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you..

Stay young and wild as long as you can.

I'd trusted my fan base, I'd trusted the my gut, and I'd trusted the music. ...the real experts are out there in front of you every night. They're th….

I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look 26. I didn't want to do that. I've earned the gray hair….

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory..

I come from a long line of Sinners like me.

It's always the roughest path, but I think it's got the most reward at the end..

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them..

Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a ….

We're all given a window of opportunity, I think all artists are, of any genre. A window when you're truly relevant, the spotlight's on you and peopl….

I've always made music that was representative of real life..

I wouldn't be the man I am today, If not for those I've loved along the way.

Man, if anybody knew the path that we've been on, no one in their right mind would ever try to duplicate it. That's something Nashville always tries ….

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that..

Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice..

I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to colleg….

I think right now, you've seen these artists pop up over the last decade who've flirted with branching together a lot of different kinds of music. So….

There's just a lot of people that hold on to what country means to them. I love fiddle, I love steel, but I don't think it should be a rule that it h….

I don't care if I starve..

I'm not a guy who can go in and go, "Hey, are we doing right or wrong?" I just do it. And whatever it is, it is..

I'm not a trust-fund type..