It's hard being part of a married couple in a band.

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

You can be for something and still be damaged by it.

It's hard being part of a married couple in a band.

If something's bugging my ass on any particular day, I'm probably going to say something about it, but I'm not going to go on a tirade.

When Adam's House Cat broke up in 1991, which was Cooley and my band for six years, I put my entire life, heart, and soul into that thing. I mean everything. I ended up getting divorced over it, and then the band broke up and I was left with nothing. I had nothing to show for six years of my life except for a finished record that still hasn't come out. And I went through a pretty deep, dark, two-year depression after that, [which] probably resulted in some of the earlier songs that became Drive-By Trucker songs, for that matter.

I dislike Bush as much as probably anybody on earth could, but having said that... It's not like I'm going to change anybody's mind.