I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.

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.

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

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

After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.