This time, we're living in such a crazy moment in history. People still write and talk about Watergate, which was such a huge, looming backdrop when …

- Patterson Hood

You can be for something and still be damaged by it.

- Patterson Hood

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 eve…

- Patterson Hood

Racism is a worldwide problem.

- Patterson Hood

At any given time, on our band Drive-by Truckers' shows there might be someone who's eight years old or 80 years old in the audience. Some nights the…

- Patterson Hood

Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

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I've always thought preaching to the converted is just kind of futile and silly.

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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 w…

- Patterson Hood

I feel like, as a people, we're sort of stumbling in the dark right now.

- Patterson Hood