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" I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage. "

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" I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop. "

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

" You have to know when to strike and when to retreat. "

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

" 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. "

" I never finish a show without singing 'She's Gone.' "

" Young people go to concerts. "

" Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. "

" I'm bad at math. "

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

" The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers. "

" I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened. "

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

" We should have an easier name to pronounce. "

" I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started. "

" You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic. "

" When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating. "

" There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul. "

" Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good. "

" My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B. "

" The mustache represented the old John; I didn't want to be that guy anymore, so I shaved it off. It was ritualistic in a way. "

" I think the key to making records generally is to make 'em for yourself, regardless of the climate in the business. "

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

" 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!' "

" The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category. "