Things Use To Be Real

Hate Me If You Want To, Love Me If You Can.

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

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.

I've Always Said I Can't Tell Sometimes That People Even Have An Album Out Until I See Them Nominated For A Grammy. I Think Country Gets Dumped On Across The Board By The Grammys.

I Loved Both [bob] Seger And The Eagles, Knowing Why They Didn't Play Some Of The Songs I Wanted To Hear. But At The Same Time, They Covered All The Big Bases, And The Stuff That Most People Had Heard. But They Definitely Had A Bunch Of Album Cuts That I Wanted To Hear That They Didn't Get Around To.