Jason Isbell Quotes

That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.

A stadium tour would be amazing - that's definitely one of my goals. Just to keep putting out real, honest music that people can really relate to and connect with.

I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime.

I play sad bastard music. For the money.

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

To go on the road and see people sing my own lyrics back to me is just fantastic.

I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing soft, sadder beautiful songs.

My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.

When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff.

I want to write songs people can sing along to. I can think of nothing more exciting than travelling the world and playing to audiences and having them sing your words along with you.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic group of songs. You do have some almost pop songs in there, but you do have your traditional country, story songs. You have your ballads, your happy songs, your sad songs, your love songs, and your feisty songs.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

We've always been just an American rock n' roll band.

We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics.

While it is great to work in films, I am super duper excited to be a part of the Da-Bangg Tour yet again as we get instant reactions from the crowd and the amount of love and energy that they give you is great to experience.

The writing is everything of course but you can't be making records and not be willing to go out there and perform.

I've had Motley fans come up to me and talk to me about Motley. I've had other fans talk to me about all the backing vocals and the tapes. I just ask them, 'At the end of the day, did you have a good time?' That's it.

The first time I performed onstage was at church. Then I formed a rock cover band - Pink Floyd and Joan Jett. We'd play at birthday parties, since it wasn't exactly church material.

Gojira is my favorite band of all time; they're lovely, I've seen them live two times. I also love Mastodon and the Refused as well.

I do gravitate towards the sad songs because I find them to be more of a challenge for me from a writing perspective. There are things about those songs that do touch people in a way that a fun song can't.

To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, 'That's my song!' It's amazing.

I couldn't imagine being in Slipknot and not going to Peru or Argentina or Moscow or St. Petersburg.

To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one.

I miss touring. I miss seeing people on the road. I miss that adrenaline rush; there's nothing like it.