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“We have a song called 'Skynyrd Nation.' It's just about what our fans are, what they do in getting ready for the show.”
“We always pay tribute to what the old Lynyrd Skynyrd has done - I'm very proud of that.”
“We're musicians; we're not politicians or anything.”
“I like George W. At a time when this country was hit hard, he stood up for America. He's been the leader of the free world during the hardest time America's ever had.”
“Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current.”
“I always try to relate a song to something what is going on, the working man, the times, how life goes.”
“We've got to take some drastic steps in this country. We can't keep spending and spending.”
“I think it's just that Skynyrd songs are timeless.”
“We write about things that we've done or things that have happened to people around us.”
“We always joke that our road crew will have to wheelchair us up onstage soon because this is what we do. This is what we love to do. This is what God put us on earth to do until the day we take our last breath.”
“We didn't grow up rich people.”
“Don't sign your publishing away.”
“The last thing we want to do is disappoint the fans.”
“Rich people know how to party, too.”
“Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been a bunch of rowdy, crazy people, but we love our fans, and that's what the music is all about: touching them. Touching them touches us.”
“If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.”
“If rock & roll is dead and gone, man, I am missing out on it.”
“I'm always going to keep my eyes open.”
“Two of my favorite bands, Blackberry Smoke and Black Stone Cherry, I just think both of those bands are a good new progressive kind of Southern Rock that's a little different than us but still has a rootsy thing going on.”
“We are not saying that every idiot out there should own a gun - and there should be better background checks on guns. Not everybody should have the right.”