Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.

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

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.

Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.

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

I heard more of the stories from my mother and my granny and my aunts that would describe what they had known that he didn't often talk about. I remember seeing [grandfather] as a child. He was working in a mine that was fairly close to their home there in Betsy Lane, Ky., and it was so close in proximity that he wouldn't clean up or shower there. He would just drive back home. And I remember one time seeing him come in and it was like seeing an alien person show up because he was still covered in coal dust and soot, and it had a profound impact on me.