On one side the government, the other side the mob.

I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.

[ Vietnam War] brought the people together and made the '60s like they were. The youth were very unified against the status quo - against the old line and the new old line. It's the same exact thing today.

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?

I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

Learning from other people is what music is all about.