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

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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."

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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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music."

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"I've always written about things that cause me to feel something."

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"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money."

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"I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else."

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"Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing."

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"I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest."

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