Tom's Country View

"When you see me, you don’t get it initially — then you meet me, and hear the story and hear the music. I just feel like I represent the guy who looks at himself in the mirror every day and goes, ‘Yeah, guys like me don’t make it.’ "   (Jelly Roll / billboard.com, December 8, 2022)

"When I first came in, with how I look — tattoos, biracial, all that stuff — I was already getting perceived as a rapper, and it kept going on for years. [So] I might as well just take on that role." (Kane Brown / nytimes.com, September 4, 2022)

"Don't want no diamonds, no furs, no Versace purse. I'll take a man with calloused hands and mud on his spurs. I know he's out there looking for me, I just wanna wake up with him under the tree." (Cowboy For Christmas / Jennifer Wayne, Nathalie Stovall, Paul Sikes, Stevie Woodward)

"Black people already love country music. Kacey Musgraves and Chris Stapleton, [Black people] love them regardless of genre, because we know their music — with its strings of R&B, gospel and soul apparent in it — is some of the best music out there. That's the flawless standard I'm approaching." (Madeline Edwards / tennessean.com, Juni, 23 2022)