"Even thought it has somewhat of a serious message, I think they meant it kind of in fun, too. I asked Strait, I said, "It's your album--do you think radio will really play this thing?"" - Alan Jackson
"For some reason I've been labeled that and it's fine, but there are a lot of other artists that sing real traditional stuff, so I don't know why they picked me. That's what I've always done." - Alan Jackson
"He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute." - Alan Jackson
"Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments." - Alan Jackson
"I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past." - Alan Jackson
"I didn't have anything to do last winter. It's the truth! I've been wanting to do this ever since I started, really." - Alan Jackson
"I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago." - Alan Jackson
"I just always remembered that, not that it pushed me to be a singer, but I don't know why he said that. Hee Haw was a big part of my life, musically." - Alan Jackson
"I really was a fan of his and always have been--his writing especially, you know? I think people a lot of times overlook that part, because he kind of got into that party character so heavy." - Alan Jackson
"I'm a fan of music if it's good-you know, good songwriting and good records, and I don't care if it's pop-country or country-country, as long as it's a good example." - Alan Jackson
"I've heard a couple songs on there and I thought, you know, it's not my style of music, but I thought, "Man, that's a good song!"" - Alan Jackson
"In the late '70s, when I was first in a little band bangin' around in clubs, the people that were current on the radio then were Mel McDaniel and Don Williams, George Strait and Vern Gosdin--all these people." - Alan Jackson
"Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it." - Alan Jackson
"We just talked about doing a duet together and he was coming in town to record, so we went in and did that. I was knocked out." - Alan Jackson
