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"As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music."
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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."
"Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own."
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"I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it."
"These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over."
"When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now."
"If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over."
"Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat."
"There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it."
"It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down."
"You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works."
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