Shooter Jennings

“My kids are deep. My daughter plays music. My son, Black Jack, doesn't forget anything.”

“Albums like 'Major Moves' or 'High Notes' - those still sound good to me.”

“I would be happy to be a footnote in my dad's bio. I don't care about trying to be famous or prove that I didn't need him. Even if they say I'm riding his coattails, I'm confident enough in my own music that I don't worry about that.”

“The smartest thing I've done for my kids is writing a song about a holiday. Every year after that, even after I'm gone, they'll get a small check from the play it gets around the Fourth.”

“My dad never liked labels, and neither do I.”

“I misfired and said some things in the past about people, namely John Mayer. And I didn't have the guts to apologize.”

“I don't think I thought I was going to go into music, and I don't think it hit me until I was 13 or 14, and then I was gone. Just like that. At that point, there was nothing else that could keep my attention.”

“I won't say I'm analog. I'm not like Jack White. I'm more like 1991.”

“My generation is so tied up in television, computers, and video games. When we were born, MTV was already there. It was normal.”

“L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.”

“I'm usually pretty punctual. I'm not one to like to be late. When I was younger, I was the guy who'd leave the house early if I had to get somewhere and drive around for a while until it got to be time to show up.”

“All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.”

“Me and my wife watch laser discs, and I collect old computers. And one of my regular models is a 1993 computer with Windows 98 on it. I just love old technology, and I don't know what you would call that. I'm just stuck in 1991, '92.”

“A lot of people that I've met who don't like country music just haven't been introduced to the old country.”

“My dream was always to be on the production side of things. Even as a little kid, when my dad would bring me to the studio, I always loved that.”

“I've had my fair share of words being twisted and articles being sliced and diced.”

“I'm in control of my musical career, which means more than awards and record sales. And that freedom is exactly what my dad fought for, too.”

“There was something about Hank Williams, Jr. that I really latched onto from an early age.”

“Dave Cobb is someone who shows up every day and is playing guitar and never takes his eye off the ball. That's what the greats in music do. The music is in great hands as long as he's making it.”

“The biggest misconception my whole life is that I'm rich, that I had all this money from my dad, which I did not.”