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All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.

I started playing guitar, like, when I was 17 or so, but where I'm from, you just don't hear about people moving to Nashville and making it. It was such a foreign thing to me. I never knew music was an option for me.

Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song.

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

There's nothing like Nashville for making records.

Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.

One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.

I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album.

The great thing about Nashville back in the day was that the old guys hung out where the young guys were. The established writers like Harlan Howard and Jack Clement gave us encouragement and passed the guitar, you know? Chet Atkins let me sit in on his sessions. Everybody was good to us, and everybody loved the music.

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.