The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.

What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.