I learn from my mistakes. It's a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there's no gain.

I just want to be remembered as a good daddy.

I never did understand the resentment about Country artists 'going pop'. Either you've got what it takes to appeal to a whole lot of people, or you don't.

I haven't had any particular direction in my music. I just do it the way I feel it at the time.

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote: 'In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will…

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.