I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.
I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.
Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.
I love Nashville. I've been here so many times... oh man, I would stay here for a year if I could. It's just so much fun.
I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.
I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.
You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.
Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.
L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.
After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.
Theres nothing like Nashville for making records.
It's the warmest, loveliest community I've ever set foot in. For me, it's the perfect place to live. It's the best part of America.
From the moment I stepped foot in Music City I have had a love affair with the people and burgeoning culinary scene. This city's long, highly-respected cultural history, coupled with the recent growth and development is inspiring. I could not be happier with my decision and I'm truly excited to call Nashville my home.
The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing.
... Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that.
I think Nashville could use some better shopping!
The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go.
But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.
Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.
I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.
Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.
If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.
I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.
