Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies of those kind of hillbilly hymns - I used to refer to them - because they were not Southern gospel as much as they were passed down from Scottish Welsh Protestant hymnals.

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.

Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.

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.

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

Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.