"My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that."

"In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in."

"If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business."

"Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well."

"True wealth is not measured in gold, but in the belief that every step forward is a victory over stagnation."

"People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success."

"The quick success was a bit strange to get used to."

"Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations."