I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

I'm really annoyed by the wave of country music that's just a list of stuff. It almost sounds like L.A. people writing country music, because it's just a list of stuff: 'My pickup truck and my cowboy boots and my Levi's jeans and my girlfriend with the short shorts.' It's so boring!

But this country is a great country and will always rebound.

Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.

You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers.

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.