I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am.

It saddens me to think that there are children in America who are hungry every day of their lives. No one can live – and grow – withoiut such a fundamental necessity as food. If we Americans reach out to our own communities, we could end this crisis.

Country radio went through a time where they were trying to pigeonhole everybody, and trying to make the gap really narrow, and I think that they’ve opened that up a little bit.

I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can’t be friend and their parent in a lot of situations, especially in this day and age where it’s so dangerous for kids. So there’s a bit of sternness, I guess, in the way I raise my kids.

You know, we’re very private, and I think that we really separate and try to keep our privacy to ourselves. There’s things that people assume a lot of times, and we understand that people are interested, but we really try to keep our family life private as much as we can.

I need you like a needle needs a vein.

There’s a tear in his eye that refuses to fall. If it would land on me, that would say it all.

I think country music is about honesty. Any art has to have honesty to start with, as the core of it. I mean, they’re just going to manipulate you in one way or the other, but there has to honesty at the core of it.

I didn’t want to play a rancher. I didn’t want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away from that in the things I do. But I read the script and fell in love with it. As hard as I tried to say no, I couldn’t.

I’m coming up on 40 next year, and after making so many records and doing music for so long, I’m looking for a change and a different perspective. And every now and then, I think I have something I want to say.