“When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood”

“We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.”