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I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

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Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

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For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

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If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

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I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: January 5th, 1961

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