I never listened to country music growing up.
You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.
I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it.
I've always wanted to be accepted by country music fans - without lying.
I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.
It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.
I don't take a second for granted of the honor of representing country music.
I was one of the very first people to ever do a video in country music.
Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.
I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was playing on Americana stages. Unless I had a television outlet like 'Glee'.
Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.
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.
In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.
My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place.
I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.
I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.
I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
