I like things all shined up and rocking with hooky pop choruses.

There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.

I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.

I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I went through my teens, with these 'wild abandon' things.

I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.

I grew up on the side of the stage. I never had a fear of an audience. I never felt like they were separated from us. We were all in the living room, and it happens to be a big living room. I continue to operate on that assumption.