It was based on the CMA awards, which I happened to watch by accident. And she did this deal where she was coming down the aisle singing her song, and sitting in people's laps and taking their hats off. That's really cool. Nobody would admit that she's cute and that it's the videos that sold the records. There's nothing new in that, certainly nothing revolutionary.
Country music is the most superficial music out there right now.
I haven't been interested in it in a long time. Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark. I wasn't taught to go and write songs and worry about whether it was going to get on the radio. And I've been lucky. I've made more money than most people who write the way I do.