I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the country music field, really. I've met the Lady Antebellum p….

And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of h….

Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world..

There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys..

The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face..

One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey..

Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that..

In theory, when you're working with a record label, you're just borrowing their money. And that's basically how the record industry works, right? It'….

The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's never written a song..

If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker..

I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I s….

When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs….

I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a hou….

I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers..

The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are en….

The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something….

I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs..

Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me cr….

I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put….

I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with mos….

I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts..