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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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"Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise."
"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
"When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it."
"It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something."
"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."
"To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity."
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