I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.

People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.

We're doing what we want to do, playing what we want to play, we're looking like we want to look, we're saying what we want to say. In rock that's done a lot, but in country it's not.

The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country? I don't see why people care about patriotism.