Jason Isbell

For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.

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The fact that I have a Southern accent and write about a lot of rural things leads people to put me in the country category.

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I think Spotify is honestly just another one of Sean Parker's ways of ripping musicians off.

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I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard thing to do, I think.

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My dad, as much as I love him, has one of those signs - 'The Isbell's' - on his front door, and he's got the damn apostrophe in there. I haven't strangled him yet.

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What having a child - and especially a daughter - has done is lifted more of the veil for me: allowed me to see things on another level compared to how I used to see them.

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I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

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Quotes by Jason Isbell