When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.

George Jones was my all-time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.

I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

No, I can't do rap music!

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words