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I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music.

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

There's only two kinds of music I don't like... Country and Western.

I didn't think I liked country music. Then I got into Garth Brooks.

People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.

What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.