I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.

My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.