I like metal detecting, collecting Civil War artifacts, fishing, hunting, cigars, Labradors, the outdoor life, my baseball game, football.
Listen, I am who I am. I have always been true to who I am and that is why the fans support me.
I love this country and I am very vocal about my thoughts and beliefs. America is the greatest nation on the planet!
Growing up on Franklin Road in Nashville, I had everyone from Johnny Cash to Fats Domino swinging by my house to talk with my mom about my dad. So I had some pretty diverse influences, and I think that shows in my music.
The bottom line is, between Sonny Osborne and Earl Scruggs, I better know how to play banjo. I had the greatest teachers in the world.
Listen, ladies and gentlemen. America is still a country of choices and options. And I have a lot of them.
Being a Williams is not easy in this business because the bar is set very high to achieve success. Daddy set some high standards for all of us.
You've got to want to put out good music. You've got to give the people their money's worth.
But, I enjoy music from lots of people. And you also have to also remember that I grew up in a household where people like Fats Domino, Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Earl Scruggs, and so many others were at mama's house. So, I heard everything growing up.
But my whole career, I have done things my way and the way that I wanted.
Me and a few of my rowdy friends stole the wheels and tires off a brand-new limited-edition Lincoln Mark III that my manager, Merle Kilgore, had just bought. We left it up on blocks and then we sold his own wheels and tires back to him the next day.
I am and always have been a football guy. My relationship with 'Monday Night Football' lasted 21 years, which is unprecedented for any theme song to be on the air that long.
I love what Eric Church is doing. He and I are friends, and he opened some shows for us a few years ago and I would fly him home on the jet. He is a good one.
Most all of my awards are at the Country Music Hall of Fame. You know we had the longest running exhibit in the Hall of Fame history with Family Tradition. More people went to see Daddy's stuff and all the things I have collected over the years than any other exhibit.
I just play the music that I'm gonna play and don't really worry about how people perceive it.
When Mother put me out on stage at eight years old, everyone wanted me to be just like Daddy.
Many people don't realize that June Carter Cash was my godmother. She and mother were very tight.
You know, I don't sit here and watch, uh, I don't watch CMT videos and listen to country radio all the time.
You better mean what you're singing or you need to get out of this business. That's where I'm really lucky because they know I mean what I'm singing or I ain't gonna sing it.
I love five-string banjo. On an electric guitar, let's say a two-hour show, it starts getting heavy right across the neck and shoulders. And I like to be able to flip it off and grab the fiddle, and that's just the way I do it.
