In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

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.

I needed to get into a nightclub and stand up and present the material that way. I needed to present it live.

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

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.