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I just love dialects; they're really fun.

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

I feel that I speak the musical language.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

I love accents.

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

There is a bit of a movement as far as younger people in country music. That is cool because people are saying things like, 'I didn't listen to country music until so-and-so came along.' And I'm like, 'Yeah! Now you know why I love it.'

I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.

I'm a bit nerdy about accents. I love it.