“Sometimes a song becomes rhetoric, but you have to really empathise. Y...” — Jason Isbell Quote

“Sometimes a song becomes rhetoric, but you have to really empathise. You also have to leave room for both sides of the argument: even if you're not telling the other side, you have to put that part in parentheses and make sure it's understood.”

“There are definitely some nights where the show is over, and you're on the bus or a hotel room, and it's sort of a shock to go from being in the atmosphere of a club or a theater and be at your own show to being by yourself in a hotel room.”

“I think I'm a common man for the most part, but I don't work as hard as most people that I know.”

“Obviously, I have arguments with people on the pitch, with all the emotions.”

“Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions.”

“I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation.”