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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know people who have written big hit country songs that are really kind of terrible songs, but for the rest of their life, they're the guy who wrote that. You've got to be careful; if you don't want that to happen, don't write those songs.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, 'This is how much I love you,' you know? It's scary to do that.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite thing about going to concerts has always been looking around and thinking that there's a lot of people in here that are very much like me, a lot of people in here I could have a full conversation with.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was still drinking, I thought I was kind of in control of everything in my life and other people's lives and realized at some point that that just wasn't the case at all.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of people are scared, and I know I was scared to get sober, at least using this as an excuse; 'I don't want to be one of those sober people.' And I don't think you have to be. I think you can be one of those people who happens to be sober.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first. I don't want to write anything that makes me cringe, first of all. I cringe a lot - mostly when I hear popular music.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the record or not, I still write - not to imitate my influences - but to write something that would live up to their standards.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy can tie your hands in a rock 'n' roll band, you know? It can be a great thing, but if you've got a certain amount of vision and you write a lot of songs, it's sometimes better to have your own band and make your own decisions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion in any way, you shouldn't be the least bit uncomfortable giving it to them. People want songwriters to tell them how they think and how they feel. That's what a song is. That's what I want to hear in a song.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think great songs appeal to people at any age. Kids love the Beatles, too. Kids love Tom T. Hall. Of course, Tom T. wrote some things that were specifically for kids. But I think kids recognize quality more than they get credit for sometimes.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know it's financially lucrative to go out on my own, but I don't like it. It's really hard work, just the performance aspect. I like people who look like they've been together for too long and sound like they've been together too long. I like rock n' roll bands.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they don't dread... I'm very lucky.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather have 1000 of our fans than 10,000 Kid Rock fans!
- Focused
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- Nov 07, 2020
The south is very focused on family... the musical heritage of Muscle Shoals especially and the bands from the region.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.
- Blame
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to pull off 'No One is to Blame' by Howard Jones. I've done that a couple times in solo shows, but I can't figure out how to do that with a full band and make it work.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like those kinds of songs that have details that you remember and that have stories that mean something and that open up into different levels philosophically. I like those kinds of movies, and I like those kinds of books.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I stopped drinking... there were so many things I had to face that I didn't even realize were part of my makeup before. When you do that and have any changes that severe, you lose a lot of things, both good and bad.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
An incredible number of people have raised children who aren't too screwed up. Surely, I won't be the worst at it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm a common man for the most part, but I don't work as hard as most people that I know.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of growing up in the South and being a man is an interesting thing; there's a lot masculinity involved, with hunting, fishing, and playing sports that rural people take pride in, but at the same time, I grew up really not wanting to hate anybody.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend a lot of time wondering how to best support the people that I love, because I think sometimes that means getting out of the way. When should I leave them alone to have their own life?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife is so very important to me that it's made my mom more important to me. It's made every woman I know more important to me.
- Handled
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've dealt with a lot of physical pain, with a lot of emotional pain; anybody's who's ever been an alcoholic has handled both of those in extreme.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.
- Nov 07, 2020
As you get up in your thirties, the van touring is not a possibility anymore. We can't all be Mike Watt.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe all music is good. I believe some music is bad for people to listen to. I think it makes their taste worse, I think it makes their lives worse, I think it makes them worse people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I joined the Truckers, I was 21 and riding in the van with guys who were a generation older than me.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020