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Racism is a worldwide problem.
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Racism
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It's hard being part of a married couple in a band.
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Band
Couple
Married
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You can be for something and still be damaged by it.
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The road does not always bring out the best in people.
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Doe
People
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Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.
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Lasts
Magazines
May
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I feel like, as a people, we're sort of stumbling in the dark right now.
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People
Stumbling
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A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.
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Bent
Grew Up
Political
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I've always thought preaching to the converted is just kind of futile and silly.
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Kind
Preaching
Silly
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I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.
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People
Stories
Writing
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I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes out.
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Guy
Mean
Views
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I dislike Bush as much as probably anybody on earth could, but having said that... It's not like I'm going to change anybody's mind.
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Earth
Mind
Said
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If something's bugging my ass on any particular day, I'm probably going to say something about it, but I'm not going to go on a tirade.
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Ass
Goes On
Particular
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I'm lucky enough that people tend to agree a lot with what I say. But really if anyone in the band has a really strong feeling, it carries a lot of weight.
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Feelings
People
Strong
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Songwriting can be cathartic, but then you just keep it private. If you're going to play out and have other people listen to you, then you need to make sure there's some point to what you're saying.
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People
Play
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At any given time, there might be someone who's eight years old or 80 years old in the audience. Some nights there are a lot of girls in the audience, some nights not. It's so unpredictable, but I like that.
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Girl
Eight
Night
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I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and perfection. Perfection can be the enemy sometimes. Some songs don't need to be told perfectly. Life is messy and has loose ends, and sometimes I think the songs should reflect that.
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Song
Thinking
Writing
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This time, we're living in such a crazy moment in history. People still write and talk about Watergate, which was such a huge, looming backdrop when I was coming of age and when I was a kid growing up. I think we're living in one of those times right now where, in 20 years, people will be writing and talking about it.
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Kids
Crazy
Growing Up
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The biggest thing this has in common with almost all of our records is the dualities are still there. We kind of stripped down the other things we were writing about, and that's what was left. A lot of good things have happened to us in the last couple of years both as a band and in our personal lives. But something as wonderful as having children also brings along these new fears and terrors and responsibilities.
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Children
Couple
Responsibility
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I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes out. If something's bugging my ass on any particular day, I'm probably going to say something about it, but I'm not going to go on a tirade. I dislike George Bush as much as probably anybody on earth could, but having said that...I've said it, you know? It's not like I'm going to change anybody's mind.
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Guy
Mean
Political
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At any given time, on our band Drive-by Truckers' shows there might be someone who's eight years old or 80 years old in the audience. Some nights there are a lot of girls in the audience, some nights not. It's so unpredictable, but I like that. A lot of Republicans come see us. I've got many friends and family that are Republicans, so our following definitely cuts across the political lines and all of that. Which puts us in the unique position of not just preaching to the converted. I respect and value that.
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Girl
Cutting
Unique
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When Adam's House Cat broke up in 1991, which was Cooley and my band for six years, I put my entire life, heart, and soul into that thing. I mean everything. I ended up getting divorced over it, and then the band broke up and I was left with nothing. I had nothing to show for six years of my life except for a finished record that still hasn't come out. And I went through a pretty deep, dark, two-year depression after that, [which] probably resulted in some of the earlier songs that became Drive-By Trucker songs, for that matter.
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