I'm grateful when anybody can start to have his or her limited perception of the genre open up a little bit. There's a lot of great music in the country genre that doesn't get heard because people say, 'Well, I don't like country.'

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

Nothing like seeing the genesis of the relationship between an instrument and a child.

And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive.

I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.

I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.

Since I was a kid I just wanted to be in Nashville.