1. I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up. 2. I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.
3. Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
4. I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.
5. I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.
6. I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking.
6. I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking.
7. I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know.
8. So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue.
9. I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.
10. Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.
11. If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.
12. All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond.
11. If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.
12. All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond.
13. Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.
14. Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.
15. I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.
16. I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.
17. I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.
18. I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.
19. I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.
20. It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.
21. I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.
22. It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.
23. My voice is stronger today than ever.
23. My voice is stronger today than ever.
24. Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.
25. One day, someone said to me: "Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?" I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said: "Why not?" And every day since then, I ask myself that question.
25. One day, someone said to me: "Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?" I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said: "Why not?" And every day since then, I ask myself that question.
26. Putting a stamp on things just helps you say: "Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here." It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.
27. The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.
28. There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.
29. Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.
30. When I started to get lonely, then I knew that something wasn't right. I'm married to someone I love, and I'm so lonely...I didn't want to live that way.
31. Nothing of my present or my future will ever take away what I had in the past, ever. I would never disrespect myself and do that. I'm very happy with every love song I ever wrote in my marriage to Mutt, and I'm very proud of the work we did together.
32. You know what's ironic? The whole purpose of making music is to connect with people, and yet the more your popularity grows, the less you are able to interact with your audience any closer than from the stage and through your records. Fame can be isolating. I know it was for me for a very long time.
33. Somebody asked me a question about how it feels now to compare the world I’m going through now, this many years later, after the career peaked after the whirlwind journey. To be honest, I don’t remember half of it from back then. Part of what is so great about where I am now is that I am living through it so much more thoroughly and enjoying it. I missed a lot of that pleasure at the peak of everything. I have a great memory, but people will ask me if I’ve played a certain place, and I’m like, you know what, I probably have, but I can’t remember. It’s impossible to remember everything- that’s just what happens. You just get jammed through so many concerts in so many places, you simply don’t even know where you are.
34. Ultimately, I am responsible for how I live my life now, and what I make out of it. In fact, I am actually grateful for what I've gone through and wouldn't change a thing - although I admit I wouldn't want to live it over again either. Once was enough.
35. A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
36. Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.
37. Many a golfer prefers a golf cart to a caddy because the cart cannot count, criticize or laugh.
38. I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.
39. I don't have to worry about what people are thinking and what's going on in the industry. I don't want that stuff to influence what I'm doing. Because I think it stifles you creatively. I don't want to have to care too much about that. All I care about is what the fans think. It's really all I care about, honestly.
40. I am very excited that my music and career will be showcased on XM. Through the years I have always tried to find new ways to present my music and my story to my fans. I'm excited to explore this long-form interview concept and bring something unique and different to the table with this six-part series on XM. It's nice to look back, even (for me), at the whole thing. It's a great reflection.
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