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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.

Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything.

I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.