I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.
To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music.
Music is such a balm. Always has been. It's such a heartbeat, like blood thrumming through the womb. That's why music appeals to people.
I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.
All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.
Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music.
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
I've always gone back and forth between acting and music, but for music I'm not trying to be a pop star - I just like to do it.
I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.
I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.
If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music.
I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite.
In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.
The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.
The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.
The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.
Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
