Alternative Country Quotes

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

I listen to a lot of Nashville local music, which, for the most part, is punk and grunge music but also alt-country stuff down here.

The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.

I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

I'm always looking to find things that are different in country music.

Caitlin Cary and I were always talking about X when we talked about whiskeytown, before it became an actual band. We like the concept of there being no real front person in X, yet this kind of switch up of vocals and really their sheer power, and their ability to sort of bastardise punk rock and midwetsren rock and even country into their own sound.

We're kind of like the Kurt Cobain of country music in a way.

I never really had any grand aspirations of mainstream country success because I know what that entails, and I'd probably be too much trouble for people to work with. If I can just reach the point where I can get 200 or 300 people in small clubs and I'm carving out enough money to pay my bills, then I'm the happiest guy I know.

I think Wilco is going to definitely stand the test of time - no question - and Uncle Tupleo, and the whole No Depression scene, which is now alt-country. I think that's going to be around a long time.

My record's all electric, and that's why I call it 'garage country.'

I am going through a Neil Young phase. I also listen to a lot of alternative country, a band called Smog and Bonnie Prince Billy, which is very dark and twisted.

I'm not a mainstream country artist, and I never will be.