I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.

Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change.

I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.

Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

I spent much of my life dying for somebody to help me even file for a patent or make a prototype. I understand that.

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.