Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.
For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.
Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.
I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.
I've always felt that the quality of the voice is where the real content of a song lies. Words only suggest an experience, but the voice is that experience.
The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.
When you go into the studio or get up on the stage with people who have more experience or knowledge, you learn.
I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.
I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.
I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.
I carry my own food around on tour; I permanently have carrier bags full of cereal and bananas.
Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid, there weren't a lot of options. Now you're overwhelmed with options.
I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.
I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out.
Roy Acuff's from Maynardville, and that's where a lot of my family's from. So he's, I've been told, a distant cousin, as well.
There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kidding.
The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.
It's the boring things that mean a lot to me. I enjoy taking my sisters to eat. Or sitting watching TV with my family.
We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.
