My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win. I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.
I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.
I was in a bluegrass band. I made two records with a band called the SteelDrivers. They were nominated for two Grammys. I then I was in a rock band called the Junction Brothers; we made kind of '70s hard rock music.
You go to the Grammys and you say, 'I don't care if I win or not,' and of course you care.
I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.
Country is not what you heard on the Grammys.
At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone's got five security guards. You can't talk to anybody. You always feel out of place, like, 'Hey, the rednecks are in town!'
The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics.
