My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.
People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.
I am a country boy and proud of it.
Simplicity is the key to what I do.
I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.
Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.