I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
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My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!
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Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
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For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
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