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

My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

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.

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way.

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.