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" A good mustache makes a man for many reasons. "

" Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music. "

" Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together. "

" Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world. "

" Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies. "

" I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well. "

" I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school. "

" I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000. "

" I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers. "

" I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines. "

" I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton John, or you know, whoever, Bob Dylan. Great songs are great songs, and they stand the test of time, and they can be interpreted and recorded with many points of view, but yet still retain the essence of what makes them good songs. "

" I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record. "

" If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome! "

" If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing. "

" If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that's the real joy. "

" If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life. "

" If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends. "

" If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager. "

" If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same. "

" I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot. "

" I have a great family, I live an amazing life. "

" I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country. "

" I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically. "

" I just like playing with the band and doing what I do. "

" I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong. "

" I love what Alabama Shakes is doing - it's kind of like what grunge did to rock 'n' roll, they're doing to R&B. "

" I'm always reading something. "

" I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists. "

" I may just keep releasing singles 'til I run out of music, which is kind of cool in a way - as long as people don't go, 'Oh my God, not another one!' "

" I'm bad at math. "

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