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"Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world."
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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 want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."

"I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though."

"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."

"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."

"The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do."
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"As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job."


"Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit."


"Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes."


"I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart."


"We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music."


"I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity."
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