I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

There's never going to be another Patsy Cline. Without her, I don't think I would have lasted.

I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.