Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been a bunch of rowdy, crazy people, but we love our fans, and that's what the music is all about: touching them. Touching them touches us.

When you're dealing with a big amount of money, you should have your own accountant and your own lawyer.

The fans have always been there for us, and they've realized when we were going through a hard time.

I always try to relate a song to something what is going on, the working man, the times, how life goes.

It is a scary world out there, and believe me that if someone were to try to come into my house, I want to be able to protect myself.

I'm a Republican myself, though I think there are actually some Democrats in Lynyrd Skynyrd.

We're musicians; we're not politicians or anything.

We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.

We always pay tribute to what the old Lynyrd Skynyrd has done - I'm very proud of that.

My father was a Democrat.

It's for the common people, people who have made this great country of ours. That's what the heck I say we always write about.

To me, making a CD is like writing a book.

I saw B.B. King in concert one time where he had this guy that would bring him out a glass of water and towel to wipe his forehead with.

'Free Bird' is timeless, 'Sweet Home' is timeless. They're just timeless songs.

As Christians, it's our duty to stand up for what we believe - that's called testifying.

On our Web site, we have people complaining about us not playing new stuff. But there's so many classic Lynyrd Skynyrd songs, you can't go out and just do a bunch of new things.

Skynyrd is a big family. We have argued, fussed, and fought.

I want to be there for the last note of 'Freebird' when that happens.

If it wasn't for Al Kooper, there might not be a Lynyrd Skynyrd. He's the one who found us at Pinocchio's in Atlanta, Georgia, and signed us to Sounds Of The South through MCA, brought the band to attention.

We are not saying that every idiot out there should own a gun - and there should be better background checks on guns. Not everybody should have the right.

If you're only a fan of the old music, that music's gonna wind up sounding even older.

David Allan Coe actually went to jail one time. Some fan cursed Lynyrd Skynyrd, and David Allan Coe kicked his teeth in. He ran and kicked a guy's teeth in for saying something about Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Some of the stuff, I absolutely don't remember recording it, it's been so long. But I do like to try to throw in something a little different for the audience once in a while. Because a lot of these people who come to see have come back many, many times.

All of a sudden, I was in charge of my own decisions in the studio, and I didn't have someone to guide me on what I was doing, right or wrong... I wasn't a producer, and I didn't realize until then how important producers were and how much they assisted me in my work. I tried to do what I could, but I had no idea what would be good for the market.