More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

Country music is three chords and the truth.