�I�ve seen�em. A LOT. I know those emotions I write about �cause I�ve lived with all of them When I sit down to pour my heart out, pour my life out, this is what comes out � and I�ve led a life of extremes. But I�ve come to a place in my life where I have to tell the truth�

�You know, I�m not some suburban kid� My father spent 7 years in Leavenworth and came out breathing fire � and I was his oldest son, so I learned to breathe fire, too. But because of my mother, I�ve gone just as far the other way. So music�s my equalizer, and it lets me hit both of those extremes hard without giving into one or the other � from religious school to Gary Stewart�s beer joints.�


�For me, there�s a certain void of unrest, a hunger that will never be satisfied � and that battle to maintain some kind of balance... that�s what �Red Dirt Road� was about. �Red Dirt Road; defined everything for me: beer and Jesus, so you better get in the middle �cause that�s where the fire burns the hottest! Too much to one or the other, it�ll burn out; that�s the challenge.�

�Hillbilly Deluxe is very much a coming of age for us � who we are, what we have to say. Just doing it,�