Ricky Skaggs

Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.

I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.