You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.

I don't really believe in genres. I don't want people to have any preconceptions about me. I want the first impression to be the music.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Dive on them and squash them if you must.

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.