Interviews

It's a common complaint from country stars: Time on the road means less time at home with spouses and kids. And then when they are home, the kids spend all day in school and then work through their extra-curricular routines before it's off to bed they go. Tracy Lawrence says switching to homeschooling his youngest children helps keep them close by.

Kanye West admitted in a TV interview on 'Kris' (Aug. 23) that his perspective on Taylor Swift, whose 2009 VMAs acceptance speech he famously crashed, has changed now that he is a father with a daughter of his own.

Jake Owen's hand injury is just the latest in a growing list of his injuries occurring during recreational activity that some may label as extreme. Before his block party celebration to commemorate his fourth straight No. 1 single, Owen said he doesn't plan to reign in his adventuresome ways, no matter who asks him to.

Luke Bryan may be the 2013 Entertainer of the Year, but he's not ready to be a television entertainer just yet. Instead of being lured into the television industry, the 37-year-old is focused on one thing: his music.

It's pretty simple: If you break Taylor Swift's heart, you'll get payback -- musical payback. When One Direction's Harry Styles and the superstar songstress broke up last winter, one question remained: Will Swift write a song about him?

Fear not, Sugarland fans: Even though Kristian Bush and Jennifer Nettles both have solo projects going on, the duo isn't breaking up.

Kelly Clarkson and fiance Brandon Blackstock are set to get married this fall. But Clarkson is already relishing in one aspect of her new life: step-motherhood.

In addition to recording hit songs like 'It Goes Like This,' Thomas Rhett is a talented and successful songwriter. His successes include Jason Aldean's '1994,' Lee Brice's 'Parking Lot Party' and one other song that caused some minor marital discord when he let another artist cut it.

One of the great surprises to fans of folk duo the Civil Wars is this: they aren't married to each other. It was their yearning and emotional lyrics -- along with obvious onstage chemistry -- which created a myth of a love story that wasn't really there. And according to Joy Williams, that aspect was sometimes like playing with fire.

Country fans are fiercely loyal about their favorite music genre -- sometimes to the point that they only want "true country artists" to identify themselves as country singers. But Luke Bryan thinks that there's room for blending genres in today's brand of mainstream country music.

George Strait doesn't do many interviews, but he did grant Billboard the rare chat in his new cover story. Strait has always maintained an air of mystery, preferring to let his music do the majority of the talking. But he does have a message for the music business and for fans.

Jake Owen is a fan of Tom Petty. The singer says he's long called his fellow Floridian an influence, but after hearing the rocker's comments about country music, he had to take a step back.