I know who's going to be on the throne [in the Gameof Thrones], at the end, so I better not say. But, there will be a few people sitting on it, before the end.
Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.
You can be for something and still be damaged by it.
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 weight.
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 everything. I ended up getting divorced over it, and then the band broke up and I was left with nothing. I had nothing to show for six years of my life except for a finished record that still hasn't come out. And I went through a pretty deep, dark, two-year depression after that, [which] probably resulted in some of the earlier songs that became Drive-By Trucker songs, for that matter.
I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes out. If something's bugging my ass on any particular day, I'm probably going to say something about it, but I'm not going to go on a tirade. I dislike George Bush as much as probably anybody on earth could, but having said that. . . I've said it, you know? It's not like I'm going to change anybody's mind.
I feel like, as a people, we're sort of stumbling in the dark right now.
At Mach 20, we can fly from New York to Long Beach in 11 minutes and 20 seconds.
A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.
Tony Blair a couple years ago was going around apologizing for everything. He apologized for the Irish potato famine. The Canadian government apologized for how it treated Indian school children. When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?
That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing. ' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all -- other people do.