Tom's Country View

"People talk about Dylan going electric at Newport, but in the moment that didn't go well for Dylan. He was booed — people threw s—. But now that’s a paradigm shift, right? You and I are going, 'F—, I wish I was there.'" (Eric Church / Los Angeles Times, Mai 2nd, 2025)

"Both the actual book as well as the saying I’m OK – You’re OK have been featured in popular culture in the decades since the book was released, starting with a [1972] New Yorker Magazine cartoon about a phone conversation: 'Oh - we're reading "I'm O.K. - you are O.K.," and I guess we are O.K.. But I think it's because of the martinis, not the book." (Nicholas Berne Calcaterra / drthomasharris.com/im-ok-youre-ok-book-thomas-harris/)

"This. What is this? This is what I want to do.’ And he was like, ‘No one’s doing that.’ Cool! That’s a good thing! So to help me, we would take old country songs and put a soul twist on them, or we would take old soul songs and put a country twist on them." (Kassi Ashton / people.com, October 11, 2019)