Patterson Hood Quotations

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

It's hard being part of a married couple in a band.

I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes out.

The road does not always bring out the best in people.

At any given time, there might be someone who's eight years old or 80 years old in the audience. Some nights there are a lot of girls in the audience, some nights not. It's so unpredictable, but I like that.

You can be for something and still be damaged by it.

If something's bugging my ass on any particular day, I'm probably going to say something about it, but I'm not going to go on a tirade.

I've always thought preaching to the converted is just kind of futile and silly.

I dislike Bush as much as probably anybody on earth could, but having said that... It's not like I'm going to change anybody's mind.

I feel like, as a people, we're sort of stumbling in the dark right now.