I needed to get into a nightclub and stand up and present the material that way. I needed to present it live.
I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.
We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.
I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.
I'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.
I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.