If you want to get broken in good, put four girls on the road together in a van and tour up and down the country.

I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.

I don't even want to call it God. I just want to call it connecting with something that's greater than I am. So that's the biggest thing from Tennessee - the spirit.

My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.

I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.

Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a nice gory murder film on TV?

Whatever people are doing, they're probably going to be doing it five years from now. You have your banker, your general store runner, the principal of the school, and things of that sort. It's nice to see that, and to get old with other people.