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Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.

Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work.

If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.

That's the beauty of country music - you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And when you're on the road with big name acts, you realize there's no easy way to the 'Promised Land' in this business.

You can work on music a few lifetimes.

I want a long career in music, so you've gotta keep trying things out; it's gotta get progressively better.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.

Music is not a very stable business. It comes and it goes, and so does money, but your education stays with you for the rest of your life. When you have that education, and you have nothing to fall back on, you can get a get a job anywhere.