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What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.

Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.

I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.

I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.

To have your first No. 1 as an artist was everything I could have ever dreamed for. Now we're keeping our fingers crossed, and hopefully we'll have many more, but there's certainly nothing like the first one.

It's so hard to pick a 'single.' I always want it to be whatever my favorite tune is, but often the record company and the person whose job it is to take it to radio have different ideas.

There's always room for your hard-core country songs, and that will always shine through, and I'll always have those on my albums. And then I'll have fun stuff that gets people up and dancing that some people may want to say, 'Well that sounds real pop-y!' but I don't really think it does, I just think it's what's going on.

I'm a country artist first and just happen to be on television doing it.