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Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.

Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.

You make music to change the radio, not make music for the radio.