I always had this yearning to give and help and make people feel better.
I try to make sure that, when I'm writing, I don't put too much Cody in it. But I don't want to lose it either.
I am who I am and I don't think you can put a label on it.
In the back of my mind, I want it to do well, but at the end of the day I literally just got down on my knees and prayed - "However you want this thing to go lord, let it go that way. " Low and behold, it did what it did and it's doing what it's doing. I'm just trying to sit in the saddle on this deal, just trying to stay on board!
I just continue to be myself and give this thing over to the good lord, just do my best every night and pretend like it's just any other job.
When your songs are like your babies, even the one that you know aren't great, you still love.
If you're true to yourself, it doesn't matter where you record your music or where you say you're from. I am an artist from Texas, proud to be from Texas, but I play my own kind of music, my brand of country music.
It would be a lovely place if we didn't necessarily judge or jump to conclusions because someone wants to wear a dress or because someone wants to wear pants.
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
For 40 years, everyone running for president has released their tax returns. You can go and see nearly, I think, 39, 40 years of our tax returns, but everyone has done it.
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.