We've been married, this'll be our 10th year, so I guess we've traveled on tour for 10 years. She's always been out with me -- and the kids -- when I've been working. It's just part of the program to us.

I've traveled more this year than any other living human being, and if I'd traveled any more I wouldn't be living.

When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.

We tried to guard her. I guess she wanted to prove she should have been on the All-Rookie team.

Country radio went through a time where they were trying to pigeonhole everybody, and trying to make the gap really narrow, and I think that they've opened that up a little bit.

I didn't want to play a rancher. I didn't want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away from that in the things I do. But I read the script and fell in love with it. As hard as I tried to say no, I couldn't.