We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

Having a child at 55... that's optimism.

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.

I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy them, even if they've already downloaded them. If they can afford it. If they can't, I'd rather they be able to download it than not get it at all.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.