I thank God for all the independent hard rock that I grew up with.
— Hank Williams III
My mom was always playing Elvis around the house or ZZ Top, so there was always rock-n-roll and country being played.
Politics and music should only mix to a point. Me, I think my job as a musician is to make people try to forget about all that.
I just hope I'll live to 60, and then I'll turn to the Lord and say, 'I'm ready for you now. I got all the time in the world to start making it up to you now.'
I always do my show and say hello. And a lot of people are standing around waiting to shake my hand and say thanks for, A, letting me talk to you, and letting me feel a part of what you do.
Radio can break you.
I always saw myself as a sideman. I figured I'd end up a drummer.
When I'm feeling awful, music is the only thing that releases the pressure. It's been the best psychiatrist I've ever had.
I told all my punk friends, 'If I'm gonna do country music, I'm gonna milk it.'
I got my first drum kit when I was six years old.
I always think Hank Williams knew that he was going to die young, and that's why he did that much work.
My grandfather always sang about the light, and for some reason, I don't know why, it even goes back to when I was seven, eight years old, I've always been attracted to the dark.
I don't want to have to talk to a lawyer if I want to jam with someone or if I want to sing on someone's album.
To me, country music is emotions, certain harmonies. But it's all in the emotions - a lot of good times, a lot of hard times.
Each Hank Williams has always had an independent streak.
It seems that pop country has stuck around a long time.
I'm a musician... not a politician.
If I was just a country singer, I wouldn't be near as cool and I wouldn't have nowhere near as cool of a fan base.
Man, I live out 90 percent of my songs and the other 10 percent... once in a while, I'll put myself in someone else's shoes and try to go down that road.
Minneapolis, in general, has been there with me since the beginning. They made me feel important before I really even had a foundation. I think a lot of it has to do with it's such an intense music city in its own right.
I live wild and free and reckless, but that's the price you have to pay for rock.
Most people do their shows and get the hell out, and don't even care about the fans.
I have never had a business mind.
Over the years, Cajun music has always calmed me down, or if I'm feeling real sick or feeling real unsettled, I can put that music on and try to get focused again.
In reality, I never even got to have a Hank Williams instrument. I got a tie, a fishing lure and a check.
I was a massive Sid Vicious fanatic.
Hank Williams, Hank Jr. and myself, if you check your history, you'll see that they've always played in rowdy environments. Part of that is a lot of people are coming to forget their problems and not being told what to do for a couple of hours and not try to have anything sold to them or pushed on them.
I mean, out of every five shows we do, there's somebody saying Hank Sr.'s rolling around in his grave.
It was fun trying to use a few different voices for the vocal track on 'Country Heroes.'
Unless you can't take care of yourself or stuff like that, I'm always standin' for you to hold onto life as much as you can.
For someone like me, if I ever had huge success or whatever that is, I would just play smaller venues two to three nights in a row just to keep the intimacy level there and that's my take on it, but it just depends what you're going for.
It's really tough - if you're on a major label and they want you to have a number one song, you need to do what they say.
You can't say I don't work hard and give all I got.
The only person out there worthy of mixing political views and music is Jello Biafra.
Energy wise, playing the drums was a lot of fun; I just felt like it was a natural fit for me.
Hank Williams was playing rock-n-roll before rock-n-roll was.
I never did figure on being a college man.
I know I'm a sinner.
There's a lot of different moods that come across in my shows. Even when I'm playing a slow waltz song, sometimes there's crowd-surfing. Most of the time there's a mosh pit.
My country stuff, it might sound like Hank Williams - that's just the way it is. But I'd rather sound like Hank Williams than Trace Atkins.
Well, I've always felt connected to the outsider.
I was like, 'I'm never gonna do country, I'm never gonna give in, you'll never see me wear a cowboy hat.'
My first vinyl was a Kiss record and a Walt Disney record. I liked the energy of rock and roll.
The biggest production show I went to with my step-dad and my mom was Adam Ant when I was probably eleven.
I'm involved with Satanists and activities.
The best music out there isn't on the radio.
I've got no respect for anyone who tries to take the easy way out.
I've always known the kind of songs I wanted to sing and play.
I still believe in hope and that a good song will push itself.
I don't like being told what to do, and I don't need to be told what my record should sound like.
