Every Storm Runs Out Of Rain, Just

Country Was About Character. Country's Changed Because Of Monsters Like Clear Channel Who Bought Up All The Stations And Sliced Them Up Into Formats. Our Demographic Is Now The Soccer Mom.

If You Come On My Property, I've Got You From The Second That You Enter On. There's Little Lasers My Tvs Come On In My Room And Fall Just Right On You. So, There's No Way To Sneak Up On Me. And I've Got A Loud Dog.

I Try Never To Focus On The Radio, Just Find Great Songs, Find Emotion And Just Write The Best Songs You Can. I Think When You Get Fixated On Trying To Do Something Too Accurate, It Becomes More Washed Out And Less What You Intended It To Be. So I Think Each Time The Challenge For Me Is To Try And Reinvent A Little Bit.

I Really Like The Old Stuff That I Cut My Musical Teeth On, And I Loved It When The Industry Was Just Like That, Without Really A Genre. Today, Country Radio's More Aimed At A Demographic Than A Genre. It Just Softens Everything.

I've Always Said I've Wanted To Be Around Forever. I Never Wanted To Be The Latest, Greatest Thing. I Want To Be Like Willie Nelson - Touring When I'm 70. To Do That, You Can't Be The Latest, Greatest Thing Because Those Things Fizzle Out.