The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

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

We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

How do you measure your value?

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.