Hank Williams III

“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'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.”

“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.”

“Most people do their shows and get the hell out, and don't even care about the fans.”

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

“I thank God for all the independent hard rock that I grew up with.”

“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 know I'm a sinner.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I've always said I'm gonna work the road as hard as I can 'til I'm 50, then I might slow down a little bit.”

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

“If I'm opening up for George Jones or playing a complete honky-tonk, I do true country music. But if it's a complete rock club, I'll do some country and a little bit of this hillbilly acoustic country metal or whatever it's called.”

“We definitely get respect as far as the musicianship, working hard and being road dogs.”

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

“I chose taking the hard road and creating my own niche and getting my own fan base.”

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

“No other Hank Williams has ever screamed like I have. I guess that's my way of officially being me.”

“My whole game plan, at first, was I wanted to rock out as hard as I could because usually you're old by the time you're 24.”

“We're bringing together the country folks and the rockers.”