When I think about country music, I think about America,

[Asked about his songwriting achievements, he said he was] a big fan of the Golden Age of Country Music, ... [It was] when artists had an identity bigger than any of their songs.

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.

June Carter had a long heritage of just being the spokesperson for country music and the face of country music.

She [Shania Twain] brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.