If you're ever gonna find a four-leaf clover, you gotta get a little dirt on your hands.

I'm influenced by so many different kind of things, so naturally the music that comes out of me is skewered, I guess, for different kinds of people and not just straight down the middle. It's not in a box. Show less «

[on the challenge in 2014 of composing country songs] I don't like it when people try to pretty up a situation. Yeah, it's kind of a tough economy and people may want to get their minds off that, but they also want to feel like they're being related to. Even it it's kind of bleak or depressing, maybe they take comfort inn the fact they're not alone. Show less «