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.

They both sang. My grandmother had a very haunted mountain voice and would sing hymns. My grandpa would sing but in a very, very subdued way.

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

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

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

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.

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