I've always loved to sing.

But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.

Ive always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.

I'm a real Suzy Homemaker.

After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with

I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.

Ive been playing swing chords for a long time.

The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers.

Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting

There are some we cannot help but take an instant dislike to.

You will never be a leader in any area of your life if you are not a reader in those areas of life.

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don't fall asleep.

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

There's nothing anyone can do except change the subject.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.