I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable, then you win.

[My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends. And that music was Country Music.

If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more friendly to other artists looking for material.

When I was 12 years old, or however old I was when Bringing It All Back Home came out, I'd just skip back and forth endlessly between 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' and 'It's Alright, Ma' and 'Mr. Tambourine Man,' and now my Bob Dylan roots are showing big time.

If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do it.

Try but don't try too hard. Just try hard enough, and things will go better.

Pain comes like the weather, but joy is a choice.