If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
I'm nowhere with country music. I don't hear much of it, so I shouldn't venture an opinion, but when it finds me, it seems formulaic.
I definitely listened to country music. I don't think I listened to hair bands as much as I did Bruce Springsteen and U2 and Aerosmith.
I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is.
In country music, there are certain female artists, like Gretchen Wilson, where you're going to find lesbians because they're responding to that more aggressive side.
But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.
I always know I'm a country singer, and regardless of where I've fallen into different places with my music, I know that, really, I'm a country singer.
When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.
I don't mind putting my heart out there for the audience, and for the country music fans... to be vulnerable with them... that's my job as an artist.
I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.
My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me and it's influenced me in a positive way.
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