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I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.

There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.

I've grown up with country music. I love how real everybody is, not just the artists, but the fans.

I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.

Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.

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.

Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre.

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.

I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.