Grace is a person. And his name is Jesus.
Today, if you were to look at my CD collection, it might scare some people.
To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.
Good music is good music.
Well I'm an eight ball shooting, double-fisted drinking son of a gun
I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me.
I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.
I started making work, and it's like, yes you are calling out all of these things that are part of your memory, your body's memory, things that have gone through your pores, what you've seen, what you've experienced, and you spill them out without thinking. I don't think so much about, "Okay, I'm going to make work, and it's going to be about this. " It's just going to come out.
Different groups in different areas developed different traits to assure their survival.
Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
Art is science made flesh.