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My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

Before I started writing for myself, I was writing country records, and they were coming out dope.

I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.

People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.

It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.

Growing up, we had folk records.

I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them.

This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.