Hate Me If You Want

Writing Songs And Looking For Ideas Is Like Blinking My Eyes. It's An Involuntary Muscle. I Do It Without Thought.

I Was Raised In Bars. My Grandmother Had One, And When I Was 12 Years Old I'd Go Stay With Her And That's Where I Got To Watch Her Band Play -- She Had A Seven Or Eight-piece Band, And I Would Sit In The Kitchen And Peek Through The Door. I Was Kind Of A 12-year-old Bottle Washer.

You Know, I'm Pro-troops, But I'm Not Pro-war.

I Feel An Obligation To Those People Who Are Willing To Go Lay Their Lives On The Line. These Are The Same People That When We Call On Them, And We 100 Percent Agree As A Country ... In Our Lifetime There's Gonna Be An Event Take Place ... Just Like When 9/11 Happened, Everybody Wanted To Bring Them To Justice. When We Called On The Troops, They Went In.

If I Hear A Conversation And Somebody Says Something Intriguing, My First Thought Is, Is That A Song? I Write All Year Long, And At The End Of The Year I Pull These Forty Or Fifty Things Out And Say Which Of These Things Do I Want To Record.