What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run.

What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run.

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.