All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they don't come to my shows, I just don't exist for them and they don't exist for me.

When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

Those who do not love me do not deserve to live.

All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.

Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.

Tennessee is a very country-type state. Maybe I can practice on some type of country-western dance where they'll know what I'm doing.