“You start creating art through the people that are looking at you, try...” — Rodney Crowell Quote

You start creating art through the people that are looking at you, trying to route it through their sensibilities or their eyes, and then it's not you anymore.

My father took me to see Hank Williams on December 14th, 1952. I was two years and four months of age. And I remember a little cool eddy of hair hitting my cheek, and I remember the smell of his hair oil, and I remember the mingling tonality of the small talk before the show started. Those are my memories.

In my 15 minutes of fame around 'Diamonds and Dirt,' it was not a healthy time for me because of my insecurity.

Sometimes, the better writing comes when the song speaks through me and tells me what the song wants to say.

I can't throw myself the ball. All I can control is running my routes and making my catches.

As a kid, I'd get up at 3 in the morning during school vacations to help my father on his bakery-truck route. He didn't get a vacation from that schedule.

It's not every day you're going to have 80-yard touchdowns and to me a lot of it is luck. You have to run the right route, play call, it's where you are on the field, right defense, couple guys running into each other, another guy slipping. There's a lot that goes into it that has to happen.

In any other sport an easier route to the final is your best route - but in this sport it isn't.