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I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'

I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost.

Some of the country stuff in the past has been so polished - if you were a guy with a nice pair of jeans, a big belt buckle and nice hat, you were country.

I simply can't wear an outfit if I don't feel that is right for me.

You see a lot of people out there that say they're country, and they do their little things that are stereotypical country things, but being country is a way of life.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed to wear.

In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being.

All over Africa, people are wearing what Americans once wore and no longer want. Visit the continent, and you'll find faded remnants of secondhand clothing in the strangest of places.

You need to feel like you're wearing the clothes, and they're not wearing you.