John Doe Quotations

We did it in the most hillbilly way we could think of, and there we were,

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

I don't know of any other band that has two vocalists that can sing together without competition,

I think the Knitters were a little more straight-up country than some of those bands, but we were all bringing roots-type sounds to a new audience.

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.

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

Yeah, I've always thought it had sort of a jazz improvisation aspect to it,

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I'm just happy to be part of a 'sophomore effort,'