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"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."

"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 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."

"I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human."

"This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it."

"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money."
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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."

"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

"Music is the fastest motivator in the world."
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