The industry is always changing, but country music is like a force that always comes back.

I say that I get paid to travel, and I play the shows for free.

Every artist has a moment where they think about quitting music for a moment because its scary.

Ive never been the type of guy thats ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.

Theres very few things that tear me up and get me, but kids, especially terminally ill kids or kids with diseases... gets me every time.

I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what I think they want.

Honky Tonk Badonkadonk wasnt some serious song, but it was huge! It was funny.

I'm a romantic at heart.

Do what you love and the money will follow.

I keep living this day like the next will never come.

By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

My mom makes the best Cajun stuff. I'm a big gumbo guy. I've lost a lot of my Louisiana accent, so now when I say 'gumbo,' I feel like someone who's never said the word before.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.

When I'm on my deathbed, I'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had.

The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.