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

No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you change as a person. To be a true artist, I have to be...

I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve Wariner… And at the other end of the spectrum, I had Eric Clapton in a rock...

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

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.