I love Nashville, and I love the South, but on a professional level, I had started feeling smothered by the Nashville way of doing things.

My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.

I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

If heartaches and tears and shadows of doubt are part of the deal you can count me out but if your talking about a game I can win You can count me in

Once you get away from where you're from, you look at it in a different way.

I also love real estate and decorating.

Every seed must rise through dirt to enjoy the sunshine.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

When Celtic get an opportunity to go above Rangers they've got to jump at it with both hands.

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.

I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.

Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.

I am a big believer that orderliness begets wealth.