I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.
Patrick CarneyIf you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
Patrick CarneyI was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
Patrick CarneyI'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the country music field, really. I've met the Lady Antebellum people and I met Marty Stuart briefly once. He's really nice, but I don't know any of them, really.
Patrick Carney