Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.
It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.
My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.
I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.
Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.
You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers.
I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record, everything stinks, and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.
The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.
Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.
I love being domestic: making coffee, just putting on a record, and just sitting, not doing anything. It's so great.
I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records.
I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.
There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.
Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.
I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.
You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.
I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.
When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances.
