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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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"I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over."

"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."

"Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too."

"The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar."

"It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band."

"I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created."

"It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore."

"There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life."
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