To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

A country song is a song about life.

Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love

The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important.

I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.

Tonight I'm the designated drinker.

I'm usually just enjoying life.

I'm hooked on my baby's love, there ain't nothing in the jug this strong.

Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin' against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..

Love is stolen in the shadows of the night. Though it's wrong all along, it keeps going on as long as they keep it out of sight.

People ask without wanting to know.

You have to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandmother was.

It’s not the people in your life that tell you what you want to hear, it's the people in your life that tell you the truth that count.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

Jazz is the music of the body.

Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But thats where an interesting conversation begins.

He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.