People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.
I've never been one for doing remixes. Then I've gotta decide which version am I gonna be tonight: country Carrie or pop Carrie? I'd rather just make country music that anybody can get into no matter what they listen to.
Keep music and art alive in our schools because the greatness of a country is not measured by wars that are won, by territory annexed or even the size of a deficit. It is measured by the beauty of the art work by talented hands, the sounds of the mus...
I was tossed all over the place growing up, which I guess prepared me for the music business, but the one thing that has always been there, that has never ever left me, has been country music.
I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.
I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music.
And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.
I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.
'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.
I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.
I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.
What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.
I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.
It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.
I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.
I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.
I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.
I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me... real life stories and real life emotions.
