It's injustice. It's wrong. [The pipeline companies] didn't get the permission. They didn't do the things they should have done in the first place. They tried to just bully their way through there and they got stopped. But they're not really stopping.

We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image.

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.

Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.

I see country music, I see people who take care of their own. You've got 75 year-old guys on the road. That's what I was put here to do, y'know, so I wanna make sure I surround myself with people who are gonna take care of me. 'Cause I'm in it for the long run.

And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.