I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.
We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing.
When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.
When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.
When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions.
I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.
What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.
In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.
Wait a minute, guys, I have always been on your side. I have always spoken for you, always tried to put on a good face for the state of Indiana. All of a sudden, some of you people think I'm a bad guy?
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.
This is about black people selling out other black people.
People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.
People have the right to say what they want to.
My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.