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• ‟ Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

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• ‟ My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

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• ‟ I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

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• ‟ But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

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• ‟ I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.

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• ‟ It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

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• ‟ I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

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• ‟ I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me.

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• ‟ Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.

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• ‟ 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.

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