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What Songwriting Does Better Than Almost Anything Is Empathy - It's Incredibly Empathetic. The Reason People Sat Around In Bars When They Were Bummed Out And Listened To Country Songs Is Because It Made Them Feel Better In The Long Run.

I Think It's Obvious That Democracy Is Something That Is Contagious, And It Always Has Been.

I'll Never Believe That Americans Have Racticed In Our History Anything Close To The Purest Form Of Democracy Of The World. Because There Are Lots Of Democracies Around The World That Function Better Than Ours Does. It's Always Been That Way. There's Some Truth To The Idea That It's Rigged, But There Is A Way That It's Supposed To Work That.

We're Americans. I Don't Consider Us To Be Evil, I Just Don't Think We Know Any Better. We're A Really Young Culture. We're Hillbillies, And The Rest Of The World Sees Us That Way. I Travel All Over The World, And Probably The Only Worse Rednecks Than Us Are The Australians. And They're An Even Younger Country.

I Had Everything I Need To Get Me Killed.