I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.

I'm definitely not ready to move into something else. I'm having so much fun.

I've been playing swing chords for a long time.

My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time.

I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.

Country has been a wonderful outlet for me.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.

I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.

Aledo will always be home to me because I spent the first 27 years of my life there - it's such a special place - and because of the experiences I had there, I've become the person I am today.

My first solo was in church when I was five.

A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.

It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you.

Meeting Chet was a life changing moment for me.

I think it's going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is.

The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers.

After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.

I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly.

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.

I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.

But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.

I've always loved to sing.

I'm a real Suzy Homemaker.

Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.

I'm scared of karaoke. I think if I did have a go to karaoke song, it would be 'Whatta Man' by Salt-n-Pepa.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

Look at what you want to change, gather a few people who believe in it like you do, and start moving forward. It's important to remember that you don't always need a destination. Sometimes, you just have to make forward motion. And you absolutely can.

I felt that K wasn't getting a fair shake anyway.

I've told myself I have a chance to make history, and that's my focus.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

Singing together is something human beings just do, and there are hundreds of years worth of just European vocal music available to read and hear.

It's a very confusing experience living as a woman in Japan. If your husband is white-collar, the wife is blue. Even if you marry a person of status, the wife inevitably remains a rung below.

Belief creates behaviors.

Corporations serve an important purpose, but telling people how to vote isn't one of them.

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?

Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.

We can be just as safe with a smaller, more efficient nuclear arsenal at less cost.

I think faith helps me a lot. God wants you to be where He wants you to be, and that's where I want to be. If I do not get a part, I understand that maybe I needed to be home at that time, maybe in school; there's always a reason. My faith is also where my core friends are, at my church, a faith-based friendship.

I love football.

Trump doesn't force the networks to show his rallies live rather than do real reporting. Nor does he force anyone to accept his phone calls rather than demand that he do a face-to-face interview that would be a greater risk for him.

Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is at its heart contempt for free will.

I haven't had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery.

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.