I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.

I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans - the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today.

America, to me, is freedom.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Freedom is control in your own life.

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.

Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'

I'm a romantic slob!

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.

I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience. That's why I also believe in reincarnation, that we were put here with ideas to pass around.

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

When I see someone I think is cool, he's a pretty well-adjusted individual. He's not too affected one way or the other by what's happening, no matter what's going through his mind.

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.