And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.
And just, once again, the connection there that was kind of rare was - it was - it felt - everything felt familiar, you know, when I met Amy.
But I'm not going to put my personal life on trial by going into it in any detail.
But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.
I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.
I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.
I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.
I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
I have always tried to stay normal.
I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.
I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.
I still have to play the solos and do the things that I do on my records, I still put in the work. I think that it's more lonely, and it's hard.
I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.
It is easy to react if everything is going great.
It is harder to fail than it is to succeed because most people are going to watch you do is to react to what you've accomplished.
It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.
It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.
My Dad says I've made a name for myself and now I can pull back and appreciate what I do instead of striving to get to my next gig.
My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.
So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
That's the one thing that is really timeless is the songs. The artistry, the popularity of the artistry, that's going to come and go.
The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
There were always times throughout country music's entire history,when it fragmented off into different things.
This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.
Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today.
Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else.
When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.
With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.
You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
Your talent level, as the years go by, you know, you're going to lose a little bit of what you used to be able to do, like an athlete.
Vince won Best Country Instrumental Performance at the Gramm's in 1998.
Vince won, Best Male Country Vocal Performance at the Grammy's in 1995.
Vince won, Best Male Country Vocal Performance at the Grammy's in 1997.
He won, Vocal Event of the Year at the CMA's in 1999.
Vince won, Best Country Vocal Collaboration in 1991 at the Grammy's.
He won Top New Male Vocalist at the Academy of Country Music in 1984.
The album Let's Heal with Altan came out in 2005, songs from Hands Across the Water - A Benefit for the Children of the Tsunami.
The album I Can't Tell You Why came out in 1993, songs from Common Thread - The Songs of the Eagles.
The album Once In A While came out in 2001 Vince sang the song from the Soundtrack to The Prince of Egypt album.
The album Christmas Collection came out in 2006.
The album Hallmark Presents The Spirit of Christmas came out in 2001 with Amy Grant and London Symphony Orchestra.
The album Let There Be Peace On Earth came out in 1996 - song from The Dillard's Christmas Collection 1996.
The album The Essential Vince Gill came out in 1995 and 1996.
The album All American Country came out in 2004.
The album Next Big Thing came out in 2003.
The album My Country Valentine came out in 2000.
The album The Way Back Home came out in 1999.
The album If You Ever Have Forever In Mind came out in 1998.
The album Vintage Gill came out in 1997.
The album Super Hits came out in 1996.
The album When Love Finds You came out in 1994.
The album I Never Knew Lonely came out in 1992.
The album Pocket Full of Gold came out in 1991.
The album The Way Back Home came out in 1987.
Vince Gill was born Vincent Grant Gill on 4-12-57
The Heart Won't Lie was a duet he did with Reba McEntire, it went #1 in 1993.
Vince gill won Entertainer of the year in 1994.
Vince gill won the award for male vocalist of the year in 1995.
Vince Gill won the award for male vocalist of the year in 1993.
Vince Gill won the CMA award for male vocalist of the year in 1991.
Vince Gill went solo in 1983.
Vince played with Rodney Crowell.
Vince moved to Louisville in 1975.
Vince was the vocalist/lead guitarist for his own band at age 15.
Member of Pure Praire League from 1979-1983.
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