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Anything that I'm naturally curious about, I get really into. Maybe it's O.C.D. I get really consumed by something until I absorb it, then I'm done with it.

My paternal grandfather, when he was in the army in World War II - he was over in the South Pacific, and he thought he was gonna die. And he wrote a letter to my grandmother and their newborn son, thinking he wasn't gonna come home.

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I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.

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I lived in Japan when I was younger for about two years. I spent my time equally between religiously studying Aikido in Shinjuku by day and hard partying in Shibuya and Roppongi by night.

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I'm interested in exploring various forms of newer media that might allow those who otherwise don't listen to country to find and connect with my music.

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You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

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My wife thinks I'm crazy.

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Kentucky isn't particularly religious.

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I just have to do what it is going to make me happy, first and foremost - what is honest and what is sincere. Anybody that listens will hopefully connect with that.

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I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music.

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Atlantic has been great to me. They didn't flinch when I told them I was self-producing, and nobody was popping their head in the studio.

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I think when you're dealing with any issues about trying to become a better human being, you have to look at a lot of things about yourself that maybe you don't want to or aren't able to.

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I've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory and a multiverse. So I wanted to write a record about that instead of another song about broken hearts and drinking.

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I'm not meant to sit on the couch and not play music. But I never want to feel like I have to put out a record. I don't want to ever make those records.

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I'm just gonna write a record for my kid, and if people hate it, it doesn't matter.

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I'm grateful to all the non-risk-takers.

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Anything that I'm naturally curious about, I get really into. Maybe it's O.C.D. I get really consumed by something until I absorb it, then I'm done with it.

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I find that I have to just kind of avoid the Internet as much as possible. And even more so, when I go and look at it, I remember why I should be avoiding it.

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The art is what can't be put on a timeline. You can't say, 'Well, I'm going to make a record in May because that's when the producer has a window.' So just recording and getting things out is paramount for me.

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London's been really good to me - England as a whole - but the Scots and the Irish especially are very appreciative because that's kind of where it all came from.

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I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right?

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There are no expectations other than those I place on myself to be a great father and husband.

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Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it's more DJs and dance parties.

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Saviours get crucified.

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Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they're just trying to survive.

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I walked in, looked around, and the navy recruiter was a really hot brunette, so I signed up with her.

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You make a little noise, and you can sell out your local hometown club. But then you drive an hour down the road to the next town, and there might be eight people there.

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I never really had any grand aspirations of mainstream country success because I know what that entails, and I'd probably be too much trouble for people to work with. If I can just reach the point where I can get 200 or 300 people in small clubs and I'm carving out enough money to pay my bills, then I'm the happiest guy I know.

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Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences.

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There have been many socially conscious concept albums. I wanted to make a 'social consciousness' concept album disguised as a country record.

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I tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore.

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Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't have that outlet - those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn't have that channel to get those energies out. I'm a much healthier person when I play music.

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Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.

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I've always played music. But you know, in eastern Kentucky, everybody plays music.

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You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love.

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I love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything.

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Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.

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