People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.

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I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

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This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.

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I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.

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Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.

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Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

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I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.

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In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

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I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?

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I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.

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