I`ve always said I can`t tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys.

I say if you`re going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

You know, I`m pro-troops, but I`m not pro-war.

Don`t compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg.

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I`d been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, and started trying to write songs as a teenager.

Well, I couldn`t do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that`s what we`re built on.

Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don`t want to be a role model, that should be up to him. In the right situations, I can try to help and be a role model, but I`m still gonna speak my mind, and if that affects the role-model deal, then too bad.

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town.

I have drawn a very close bond to all the military people.

"I always vote for the guy I think can get it done. And it ain`t nobody`s business who I vote for, but I voted for Clinton twice. And that just blows peoples minds when they hear that."

"Here`s the thing. Just because you`re pro-troops doesn`t mean you`re pro-war. And just because you`re anti-war doesn`t mean you`re anti-troops. Just because you don`t support the war people think you are anti-troops and you are a bad guy. And just because you go support the troops and rah-rah the troops up all of a sudden you`re pro-war. Those are the two biggest misconceptions of the whole thing"