People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunities to have the career I've had.

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t.

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.