Balance is everything. And I'm not just speaking from a road perspective - even from home. My wife and I work out of the house and we always struggle…

- Chuck Ragan

I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or my memories from a different perspective. It's alw…

- Chuck Ragan

I met some people who showed me a path in music where they were like hey, look, while yes, it can have to do with being popular and making money, it …

- Chuck Ragan

Man, you learn so much just like with anything else. If you do something long enough, you learn. You make mistakes. You run into roadblocks and barri…

- Chuck Ragan

You're always kind of shifting and changing and it's a really exciting process.

- Chuck Ragan

It's a whole nother aspect of this life that most people have no idea about. There's the loved ones, the wives, the girlfriends, the children. Some o…

- Chuck Ragan

The song writing is different because with this stuff, I write it on my own and with Hot Water, we're more of a collective and I love both sides of t…

- Chuck Ragan

People showed me this way of dealing with music, writing songs, thinking about music and shows and our community and the fact that it doesn't have to…

- Chuck Ragan

On the road, it's constant sensory overload, and it's easy to lose track of days and time and to get caught up in the constant giving of yourself.

- Chuck Ragan