I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.

Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point.

I'm a country singer, and I'm comfortable with that. But why does a country singer have to play only on country radio or a rock singer only on a rock station? I still don't understand why it's that big a deal.

I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.