In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.

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

[My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a mining disaster on a shift that he wasn't working. And he was in a collapse where his brother-in-law was killed very near him in the same section.

I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

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

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.