The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.

I come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the roses, and the voice I hear falling on my ear the son of God discloses. And he walks with me, and he talks with me. And he tells me I am his own, and the joy we share as we tarry there, none other has ever known.

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

When the whistle blows each morning and I walk down in that cold, dark mine, say a prayer to my dear savior. Please let me see the sunshine one more time. When oh when will it be over? When will I lay these burdens down? And when I die, dear lord in heaven, please take my soul from 'neath that cold, dark ground.

I listen to hundreds of those hymns sung repeatedly over the years of my life. And I know that they probably influenced a rhyme scheme maybe to certain extent. They influenced the pentameter of placement of words, etc. And it's not something that's a conscious thing that occurred.