It's a great feeling being with a label that respects what I do.

You can only be creative so long and then you're just down and out and completely destroyed.

Most radio stations suck as far as playing heavy-metal.

I've always had that feeling for the dark side, for the anger and the hate-rock. The music is just the way I deal with it.

My relationship with my dad will always be strained, but that just goes to show, I guess, that I'm doin' a pretty good job of bein' myself, and bein' a rebel.

Everything is not perfect in our world.

All through the 'Guttertown' record, there's happy, there's sad, there's strange - and I'm painting that picture.

My country stuff, it might sound like Hank Williams - that's just the way it is. But I'd rather sound like Hank Williams than Trace Atkins.

I always saw myself as a sideman. I figured I'd end up a drummer.

Over the years, Cajun music has always calmed me down, or if I'm feeling real sick or feeling real unsettled, I can put that music on and try to get focused again.

Well, I've always felt connected to the outsider.

When I'm feeling awful, music is the only thing that releases the pressure. It's been the best psychiatrist I've ever had.

In reality, I never even got to have a Hank Williams instrument. I got a tie, a fishing lure and a check.

I was like, 'I'm never gonna do country, I'm never gonna give in, you'll never see me wear a cowboy hat.'

I told all my punk friends, 'If I'm gonna do country music, I'm gonna milk it.'

I was a massive Sid Vicious fanatic.

My first vinyl was a Kiss record and a Walt Disney record. I liked the energy of rock and roll.

I got my first drum kit when I was six years old.

Hank Williams, Hank Jr. and myself, if you check your history, you'll see that they've always played in rowdy environments. Part of that is a lot of people are coming to forget their problems and not being told what to do for a couple of hours and not try to have anything sold to them or pushed on them.

The biggest production show I went to with my step-dad and my mom was Adam Ant when I was probably eleven.

I always think Hank Williams knew that he was going to die young, and that's why he did that much work.

I mean, out of every five shows we do, there's somebody saying Hank Sr.'s rolling around in his grave.

My grandfather always sang about the light, and for some reason, I don't know why, it even goes back to when I was seven, eight years old, I've always been attracted to the dark.

It was fun trying to use a few different voices for the vocal track on 'Country Heroes.'