it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people
Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.
[My mother] called [my voice] the gift.
You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.
When I think about country music, I think about America.
I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice.