Being sober and clear-eyed changes everything.
I figure I'm a mandolin player first and foremost, and everything else I've accomplished is just a scam.
I never claimed to be a great photographer.
I've always been a sucker for a truck driving song.
When I started making some paychecks, I didn't invest in stocks and bonds - I invested in American culture.
Well, the first band was at nine, and I was on the road when I was 12 with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers.
I believe in the future of country music, but a future without roots is like a kite with no string.
One thing that I love about country music, probably more so than any other culture - maybe the blues rivals it - there are so many American folk heroes. There's the Coal Miner's Daughter, the Man in Black, the Red-Headed Stranger, and on and on.
One of the people I heard early on in his career was Eric Church. I liked him and his music.
Well, I've always said that country music has always shared a very unique relationship with gospel music - the hooting and hollering, you know, always in abundance.
I don't have many regrets in my life. But I have one. I would have stayed sober all along.
Anybody that looks at my photography, it blows my mind because it's my last hobby.
Pop Staples was one of my true mentors.
There was a junk store in Nashville on 8th Avenue, where I bought Patsy Cline's train case for $75.
I swear, there is Capitol Studios and then there's every other studio on the planet Earth. It is the ultimate, paramount of sound in the United States of America. It is a magical place.
I started out in gospel music. A lot of people don't know that I started out in gospel music, and I've never lost sight of it.
Sun Studios was where so much of American music exploded from.
My local radio station, WHOC, Philadelphia, Mississippi - '1490 on your radio dial, a thousand watts of pure pleasure' - it was a beautiful station. And I loved everything I heard. But it was country music that touched my heart.
Coming from bluegrass background, I totally understand family harmonies.
I think the way country music is set up, we all came from a family background.
