One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.
After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.
For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.
I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.
I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.
The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers.
ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.
In a meadow full of flowers you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry of life.
Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.
I think one of the core ideas in America has always been conversation and being able to question our systems of government, and being able to dictate our own communities and how we want this country to work. And I feel like we're losing part of that because of the way that even our current political campaign is centered more around celebrity than anything else, and so we're kind of losing conversation. We're still having conversations, but they seem to be more about like Donald Trump's hair and like memes of his face more than anything else.