Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.

I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.

I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.

I really tend to write in retrospect.

There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.