I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.
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.
There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.
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.
I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.
You want to represent the country and you want elected officials that are representative of the country.
I am not super-ambitious. I am not a classically amazing singer or anything.
The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.
I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
I was born a singer. I need to do that.
I made a living being a background singer for years.
I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.
So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.
There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.
I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.
