If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.

You can't tell your best buddy that you love him.

Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love.

His frustration running very high, he takes it out on the ones he loves because it's safe.

Country sure has changed in the last 10 years. It was one thing, then it was another. Country has slowly marched toward a rock beat and rock preservation. Country artists of today. Man! That's how I used to sound in the '80s.

For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it, are we?

Sometimes love don't feel like it should, you make it hurt so good.