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You couldnt get a job playing in a club unless you played so much Top 40 and so many Beatles songs. I just went into a sort of revolt.
My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.
The bottom line is, between Sonny Osborne and Earl Scruggs, I better know how to play banjo. I had the greatest teachers in the world.
There's a time I can recall Four years old and three feet tall Trying to touch the stars and the cookie jar And both were out of reach
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.
It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.
On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.
I was an eBay addict before my first album hit big. I wanted to go on this tour of the world, so I started selling everything on eBay.
It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.
I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.
I love getting to bounce around and explore so much. I love Scandinavia. I love Spain. It's so mystical and romantic, yet it's gritty.
I'm never a believer in going back in anything. You move forward, so that's my whole mentality, you make moves to go forward not back.
I love watching programs about Discovery Channel and just reading New Scientist, and all that kind of stuff. Im just fascinated by it.
The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they're selling or why, but they sell it if it works.
I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.
One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And I said, oh, boy. I like this.
He cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began, cause Leroy Brown learned a lesson about messing with the wife of a jealous man.
We need more fruitcakes in this world and less bakers! We need people that care! I'm mad as hell! And I don't want to take it anymore!
My first lessons lasted two weeks and it was Jingle Bells. It didn't make any sense at all. I wanted to know how to play like Hendrix.
There are so many things we are afraid of, thinking that if we confront them, they will kill us. Most of it goes back to your infancy.
I'm craving more soul, I'm craving more truth, I'm craving more socially - just people that are aware of what's going on in the world.
But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.
I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.
What do you have to do to get people to take an interest? I'm not going to go out and cause a silly sex scandal just to sell a record!
Maybe I'm a prehistoric monster by being an individual. It's highly likely. All I offer to others is their own individuality. Grab it!
A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.
Soon as I could play one guitar chord and laid my ear upon that wood, I was gone. My soul was sold. Music was everything from then on.
I grew up in Chicago, but I spent a lot of time down in Kentucky, and Kentucky was about 20 years behind the life that was in Chicago.
I've been in fortunate position of never really having to battle with my record company to do the things I wanted to do in the studio.
I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.
I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.
When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.
People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.
After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person.
When I was 18, I'd be out four nights a week - I want to have that energy again but I've found I'm a bit old and ready for retirement.
The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had - it's a fresh start.
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman came to see our show, We all had a drink before they set off on their travels, and we kept in touch.
There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.
It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.
I think we've got the tracks that everyone wants to sing along to. A lot of people say, 'God, I've forgotten you've had so many hits!'
If we'd had a Svengali manager and done what we would have been told, maybe we would have had a bigger, more hugely successful career.
I'll be honest; I'm a student of fashion. I say that because I just wear what I feel. I'm not led by name brands and things like that.
I don’t even think of myself as a quote, unquote star - that’s really douchey. I think of myself as just like . . . a dance commander.
The number-one rule of the road is never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself. You will break this rule, and you will be sorry.
If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash, I'd probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that's what I had done for almost five years.
When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.
I was very confused. I didn't understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that's not God.