The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.
When your songs are like your babies, even the one that you know aren't great, you still love.
I am who I am and I don't think you can put a label on it.
In the back of my mind, I want it to do well, but at the end of the day I literally just got down on my knees and prayed - "However you want this thing to go lord, let it go that way. " Low and behold, it did what it did and it's doing what it's doing. I'm just trying to sit in the saddle on this deal, just trying to stay on board!
I just continue to be myself and give this thing over to the good lord, just do my best every night and pretend like it's just any other job.
If you're true to yourself, it doesn't matter where you record your music or where you say you're from. I am an artist from Texas, proud to be from Texas, but I play my own kind of music, my brand of country music.
I think if you expect it to do well, you come off a little bit cocky.
So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with. For example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish - you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it. Then, if by any chance he really did catch one fish, he called it twenty, while two fish would count thirty, three forty, and so on.
As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.
I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.
It's going to be very interesting to see somebody playing me.