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Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

I needed to get into a nightclub and stand up and present the material that way. I needed to present it live.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

Control success before it controls you.

Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

I say love,
it knows no season.
It haunts the soul
eternally.

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.

I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.