What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them.

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.