The best music out there isn't on the radio.

I don't want to have to talk to a lawyer if I want to jam with someone or if I want to sing on someone's album.

Unless you can't take care of yourself or stuff like that, I'm always standin' for you to hold onto life as much as you can.

I've got no respect for anyone who tries to take the easy way out.

To me, country music is emotions, certain harmonies. But it's all in the emotions - a lot of good times, a lot of hard times.

For someone like me, if I ever had huge success or whatever that is, I would just play smaller venues two to three nights in a row just to keep the intimacy level there and that's my take on it, but it just depends what you're going for.

I've always known the kind of songs I wanted to sing and play.

Each Hank Williams has always had an independent streak.

It's really tough - if you're on a major label and they want you to have a number one song, you need to do what they say.

I still believe in hope and that a good song will push itself.

It seems that pop country has stuck around a long time.

You can't say I don't work hard and give all I got.

I don't like being told what to do, and I don't need to be told what my record should sound like.

I'm a musician... not a politician.

The only person out there worthy of mixing political views and music is Jello Biafra.

There's a lot of different moods that come across in my shows. Even when I'm playing a slow waltz song, sometimes there's crowd-surfing. Most of the time there's a mosh pit.

Politics and music should only mix to a point. Me, I think my job as a musician is to make people try to forget about all that.

I was always a Pink Floyd fan, and I was always into movie soundtracks.

It's right there on my birth certificate, 'Shelton Hank Williams III.' It's not fake.

We're kind of like the Kurt Cobain of country music in a way.

Hank Williams was playing rock-n-roll before rock-n-roll was.

I'm involved with Satanists and activities.

I'm here to be lovesick, broke and drifting, writing heartache songs and singing about pain and misery and depression, with a few good times here and there.

I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.