Chris Stapleton

My dad could hold a tune. He wasn't necessarily a singer, but he did love music, and he listened to it quite loud in the car. ”

I love music so much, and I love musicians - I love singers. It's fun. That's what music's supposed to be. Fun. ”

There are great songs out there, and if I love them, and I know them, I'm going to sing them just because that's what songs are for. ”

It's such a strange marriage, a song and someone that sings it. When that works, it really works, and when it doesn't, it doesn't. ”

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville. ”

I don't look at family and what I do for a living as separate things. They're all kind of one thing, and this is part of their life just like it's part of mine. ”

When you're writing with an artist or for an artist, you have to help them serve their vision. That's the cool part about writing songs. There are no rules. ”

Anyone who says it's so easy to write a country hit and that it's just a formula - well, try it sometime. If it was that easy, everybody would be doing it. ”

Everybody gets through a phase where it's, 'Ah, if I could just sound just like Vince Gill.' Then you figure out that you have your own voice, whether you like it or not, and that's what you should stick with. ”

I don't know that my voice ever makes sense anywhere, necessarily. I would sing bluegrass music, and I don't fit in there; I would sing rock music, and I'm probably a little too hillbilly for that. And country, I'm too much rock n' roll for there sometimes. ”