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" That's the thing I love the most - making records and creating new things. That's always the thing that grabbed me. Making records is the thing that I really love. "

Shooter Jennings

Love

Creating

Always

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" I don't think I thought I was going to go into music, and I don't think it hit me until I was 13 or 14, and then I was gone. Just like that. At that point, there was nothing else that could keep my attention. "

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Think

" I think the first older artist I related to and loved was Bowie. "

" Anything I write is going to be autobiographical and true to some degree. "

" L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor. "

Shooter Jennings

Love

Great

" I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything. "

" If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time. "

" My kids are deep. My daughter plays music. My son, Black Jack, doesn't forget anything. "

" My dream was always to be on the production side of things. Even as a little kid, when my dad would bring me to the studio, I always loved that. "

Shooter Jennings

Always

Bring

" You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever. "

" Dave Cobb is someone who shows up every day and is playing guitar and never takes his eye off the ball. That's what the greats in music do. The music is in great hands as long as he's making it. "

" I won't say I'm analog. I'm not like Jack White. I'm more like 1991. "

Shooter Jennings

Jack

" I'm in control of my musical career, which means more than awards and record sales. And that freedom is exactly what my dad fought for, too. "

" I would be happy to be a footnote in my dad's bio. I don't care about trying to be famous or prove that I didn't need him. Even if they say I'm riding his coattails, I'm confident enough in my own music that I don't worry about that. "

" I'm usually pretty punctual. I'm not one to like to be late. When I was younger, I was the guy who'd leave the house early if I had to get somewhere and drive around for a while until it got to be time to show up. "

" The biggest misconception my whole life is that I'm rich, that I had all this money from my dad, which I did not. "

" I feel comfortable in my own skin writing about the things that I like because I know that there are other people out there that understand what I'm talking about. "

" The smartest thing I've done for my kids is writing a song about a holiday. Every year after that, even after I'm gone, they'll get a small check from the play it gets around the Fourth. "

" My favorite bands are Hank Williams Jr. and Led Zeppelin. When it's rock, it's '70s rock, and when it's country, it's '70s country. For me, it's the grit and dirt of music that I love so much. "

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Music

Rock

" Albums like 'Major Moves' or 'High Notes' - those still sound good to me. "

" It took me a little while to get sorrow under the belt enough to understand country music's lyrics and strengths. "

" I've had my fair share of words being twisted and articles being sliced and diced. "

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Articles

Twisted

" All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel. "

" Me and my wife watch laser discs, and I collect old computers. And one of my regular models is a 1993 computer with Windows 98 on it. I just love old technology, and I don't know what you would call that. I'm just stuck in 1991, '92. "

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Technology

Computers

" My generation is so tied up in television, computers, and video games. When we were born, MTV was already there. It was normal. "

" I misfired and said some things in the past about people, namely John Mayer. And I didn't have the guts to apologize. "