I want people to focus on listening, not the image. And I want to play to everyone: rednecks, dubstep kids, punk rockers, and people who like as-real-as-it-gets country music.

I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.

There's a lot going on in country music, with indie-label hipsters and underground bloggers arguing their interpretations of what country is, and pop-country stars defending themselves. That deserves to be poked fun at.

I think we were among the first positive examples of country music for the punk rock audience,

If you are listening to music that doesn't touch you, that doesn't mean anything to you, tune into your country music station,

Somebody told me once it takes an Americana song five minutes to say what a country song says in three - so I try to write country songs. But really, all good music is just soul music.