I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

When Ray did I Can't Stop Loving You , that was probably the time when country music was heard by more people than ever before. He kicked country music forward 50 years. Before him, a lot of people had probably never heard of songs by Don Gibson or Hank Williams.

There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.

I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.

June Carter had a long heritage of just being the spokesperson for country music and the face of country music.

She [Shania Twain] brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.