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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."

"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."

"When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could."

"When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music."

"It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry."

"Music has the ability to express in the upbeat every brilliant aspect of existence, while on the downbeat convey the anguish that a human being experiences when apprehending the fleeting nature of time, and the mysterious torture of living and dying. Music stands alone in its ability to communicate the symbols and phases of life, both being and nonbeing."

"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things."
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"Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?"

"One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled."

"The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it."

"As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary."

"When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it."
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