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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."

"A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music."

"I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."

"I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though."
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"I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour."

"I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us."

"I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do."

"Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes."

"Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music."

"A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral."

"For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live."
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