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Country music belongs to America.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

There are so many music genres competing against each other, but I feel like country music has always been a unified front.

Country music has always sort of been country music.

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

I'm always kind of surprised how much I'm associated with country music.

Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.