The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.
You can be for something and still be damaged by it.
I'm lucky enough that people tend to agree a lot with what I say. But really if anyone in the band has a really strong feeling, it carries a lot of weight.
When Adam's House Cat broke up in 1991, which was Cooley and my band for six years, I put my entire life, heart, and soul into that thing. I mean everything. I ended up getting divorced over it, and then the band broke up and I was left with nothing. I had nothing to show for six years of my life except for a finished record that still hasn't come out. And I went through a pretty deep, dark, two-year depression after that, [which] probably resulted in some of the earlier songs that became Drive-By Trucker songs, for that matter.
I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes out. If something's bugging my ass on any particular day, I'm probably going to say something about it, but I'm not going to go on a tirade. I dislike George Bush as much as probably anybody on earth could, but having said that. . . I've said it, you know? It's not like I'm going to change anybody's mind.
I feel like, as a people, we're sort of stumbling in the dark right now.
The World Cup gave me a lot of confidence - just to know that I can play at the highest level and not only complete but play well.
It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.
As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say.
I think Donald Trump is now kind of in love with the idea of becoming president of the United States. I think he truly does believe that he can be the Republican nominee.