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

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

It's more in retrospect as I've thought about it over the years and look back at what I wrote, how I wrote things - like there's a song that Ralph Stanley later recorded with me that he had guested on my record what was called "Travelers Lantern" that I wrote as basically, you know, a hymn.

I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.

Control success before it controls you.

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.