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" I like George W. At a time when this country was hit hard, he stood up for America. He's been the leader of the free world during the hardest time America's ever had. "

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" I saw B.B. King in concert one time where he had this guy that would bring him out a glass of water and towel to wipe his forehead with. "

Johnny Van Zant

King

Time

Concert

" So many artists try to be something that they're not. "

" It's all these young country bucks doing Skynyrd songs, which is pretty cool to us. "

Johnny Van Zant

Cool

Pretty

" I'd rather sit in Jacksonville and do a different kind of work than get messed over. "

" You don't go to some other country and bash our president. "

Johnny Van Zant

Some

Country

" In my opinion, the only people who should have handguns are the police. "

" To me, making a CD is like writing a book. "

Johnny Van Zant

Writing

" If it wasn't for Al Kooper, there might not be a Lynyrd Skynyrd. He's the one who found us at Pinocchio's in Atlanta, Georgia, and signed us to Sounds Of The South through MCA, brought the band to attention. "

Johnny Van Zant

Through

Band

" My favorite singers in the world have been black singers, and you can go to any church and hear the best singers in the world - and I'm a singer, and I love singing! "

" It is a scary world out there, and believe me that if someone were to try to come into my house, I want to be able to protect myself. "

Johnny Van Zant

House

Believe

" We don't get home enough. "

" Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood. "

" We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America. "

" I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts. "

" On our Web site, we have people complaining about us not playing new stuff. But there's so many classic Lynyrd Skynyrd songs, you can't go out and just do a bunch of new things. "

Johnny Van Zant

New Things

People

" Who knows what the heck the future will bring. "

" If you're only a fan of the old music, that music's gonna wind up sounding even older. "

" My dad was a truck driver. We all used to ride along with him. And the way he'd keep awake was to sing while he was going down the road. So we all joined in. "

" Every redneck's dream is to write a song and have it go on a fishing show. "

" If people want to own a rifle or something like that for hunting purposes only, I tend to agree with that. But semi-automatic weapons and handguns, that's just unreal. I mean, what good are handguns? "

" Some of the songs on the radio are really outrageous. I listen to the lyric. If the lyric doesn't make sense, I don't like the song. "

Johnny Van Zant

Sense

Listen

" We have doctors and lawyers and CEOs as fans. "

" If rock & roll is dead and gone, man, I am missing out on it. "

" Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been about writing songs and talking to people through them. That's what we do, and that's what we'll keep doing for as long as we can. "

" It's for the common people, people who have made this great country of ours. That's what the heck I say we always write about. "

" The fans have always been there for us, and they've realized when we were going through a hard time. "

" Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been a bunch of rowdy, crazy people, but we love our fans, and that's what the music is all about: touching them. Touching them touches us. "

" I think people relate to Skynyrd; it's a working class band. They're just songs with messages. To this day, there's never been a song written that didn't have a message. "

" We have a song called 'Skynyrd Nation.' It's just about what our fans are, what they do in getting ready for the show. "

" I've never met a person who doesn't like music, and we may vary in what styles we like, but everybody likes some form of music. "

Johnny Van Zant

Never

Music