I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.

My grandma passed in '78, and that's the year I started recording. It's also the year that my dad retired from his career. So it's funny how torches get passed on, and you feel a responsibility to be connected to the music that they did and try to carry it on in your own way.

I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.

I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.

If I wasn't an actor, I never would have known who Debbie Gallagher was. I never would know how her feelings are or how her emotions are, or her family.

Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.

I live in a joint family with 17 members under one roof. My father is an MA, but he didn't get a job, because all his certificates got destroyed when our house caught fire. So my father took up farming - fish farming and vegetable farming.

When it comes to my family I never quite know how protective I have to be, or what I should or shouldn't say.