When you’re old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.

I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know.

Guitar playing isn’t really for everybody.

There may be people in my audience who may not agree with me on some particular issue – you know, say, as a gun owner, they may not agree with me, or, you know, someone...

If you were to hold me to a standard of, ‘What are you doing, singing about a scratch-off ticket at your level of success?’ then my music’s gonna be ridiculous.

It’s a very smart, progressive bunch, these people that make country music. They’re not country hicks sitting behind a desk with a big cigar giving out record deals and driving round in Cadillacs with cattle...

I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually it’s a disaster area of a farm at...

My life would be very puzzling to most people if they had to follow me around for a day or two.

I go to eat dinner with my folks when I’m home. I think that’s the trick.