We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.

I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.

This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.

I didn't aim at anything except good music.

The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn't happen until I did. It wasn't a real country sound, what I did. I've listened to it, and I think it was more a west coast rock thing, you know? But it fit. It was country, but it was my own interpretation of country.