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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."

"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."

"I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really."

"It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing."

"I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me."

"Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms."
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"Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years."


"I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you."


"My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere."


"Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts."


"My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music."
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