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" All I'm really interested in musically is trying to make concept albums. Serving a larger sum than the parts. "
Serving
Interested
Musically
" 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. "
Get
Curious
Anything
" Anytime I ever have met someone that was very angry or full of negativity, nine times out of ten, if you really take a good look at that person's life, there's probably not a whole lot of love going on there. "
Love
Good
Life
" 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. "
Nobody
Studio
Me
" Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work. "
Back
Music
Work
" Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians. "
Mother
Brother
Both
" Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road. "
Road
You
Bridge
" Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don't wanna tell people, 'I never really listened to Waylon.' "
You
Way
Tell
" Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you. "
Result
Never
Know
" Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it's more DJs and dance parties. "
Music
Doing
Live
" I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job. "
Could
Railroad
Liked
" I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right? "
Might
Records
Right
" I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be. "
Short
Love
Film
" I don't pretend to be an astrophysicist or anything, even though I do read about certain things like metaphysics and cosmology that I've always just been really interested in. I don't pretend to be able to sit down and pontificate on any of these subjects. "
Sit
Things
Always
" I fail to see how anything can still be weird in 2016. "
How
See
Fail
" 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. "
Find
Go
Internet
" I grew up listening to everything. I was in rock n' roll bands and punk bands, and I loved bluegrass and country music, too. Then, when I moved to Nashville, I put out a very traditional country record because that's just what you do. I had a bunch of very traditional country songs. Next thing you know, you're a country singer. "
Know
Music
Rock
" I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary. "
Had
Salary
Railroad
" I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring. "
Sit
Three
Write
" I just don't see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. It's more trying to express ideas and emotional textures. "
Ideas
See
Country
" 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. "
Honest
Will
Me
" I just really want to make - to be cliche about it, I want to make pretty music. Like Roy Orbison or Elvis, man. Those guys made beautiful, tender music. "
Beautiful
Want
Pretty
" I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam. "
Sunday
Up
Playing
" I knew I wanted to make a concept record in song-cycle form, like my favorite Marvin Gaye records where everything just continuously flows. "
Everything
Where
Like
" 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. "
Studying
Time
Day
" I'll never get tired of being told I sound like Waylon Jennings, but I don't hear it myself. "
Myself
Never
Sound
" I love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything. "
Band
Everything
Love
" I'm grateful to all the non-risk-takers. "
Grateful
" 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. "
Media
Who
Music
" I'm just gonna write a record for my kid, and if people hate it, it doesn't matter. "
Just
Hate
People
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