I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.

the greatest single portfolio of songs ever written by any one person in the history of country music.

Country music is songs about people, the music of the heartland.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.

Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country at that time. We were doing stuff that probably could have been called country music today, but would certainly have not have fit in at that time.