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“I like to fish. I collect pocketknives. I inherited a nice collection from my father and grandfather.”

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I don't see myself as some kind of fightin'-the-good-fight guy. But I always feel like if you don't like one kind of music or…

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It's man's work. My dad was gone at 4:30 in the morning and home at 8 at night, and he worked underground, and the last mine he worked in was 26 inches high in a lot of places. He liked the engineering of it - he liked the moving the earth and being able to extract something and put it…

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College didn't stick, so I worked odd jobs, but I've always written songs and played music. I actually met a guy who was a…

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I'm not going to ask musicians to sit there and pretend to play. It feels insulting to the musicians to me.

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For me, the more time you can take and the more care you can take with songs, the better off you're going to be.

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I like the old days when, if I wrote a song and I recorded it, it didn't mean somebody else couldn't record it.

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