I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.