John Doe Quotations

Prior to that, it was probably more often thought of as that old fuddy-duddy music, that corny old stuff. What we do is corny, too, but it's fun to do. And just because something is corny doesn't mean it doesn't have meaning or significance.

We play music that doesn't suck. And the minute we start sucking, we'll quit.

I think we were among the first positive examples of country music for the punk rock audience,

Restraint can be tough. I've made a point to learn how to make a slow song have as much impact as a fast song. That's a challenge I've given myself, because it's easy to just get out there and blast through a bunch of things and feel as though you're exciting the audience. If you can do that with a slow song, then you really have some variety and some range.

To have someone like Ray -- like rock 'n' roll royalty -- embrace what we do, it was great for our confidence, ... In the studio, he knew what to try to do. He went for performance. He was smart enough to realize that the band had the arrangements all worked out.

The interesting thing now is the Knitters have a context to exist in,

No. It was like father and son ... He is my father.

We had no preconceived notions of what we were going to be,

Well, 'help' is the important word there because there were a lot of other bands back in those days doing similar stuff,

That was probably their catering budget for three or four days.