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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."

"A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music."

"I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."

"I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though."

"I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music."
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"People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried."

"Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises."

"You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you."

"Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film."

"When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy."

"Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra."
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