Musician

You have people ask us how you get through all the stuff that Skynyrd's been through, and I think it's the music; it really is.

Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been a bunch of rowdy, crazy people, but we love our fans, and that's what the music is all about: touching them. Touching them touches us.

We go to Europe, and they think we're totally prejudiced 'cause we hang the bars and stripes. But for us, the bars and stripes doesn't mean we want to see anybody in slavery or anything like that. It's just our heritage. To us, the bars and stripes means grits, 'y'all,' and the beauty of the South. There's no prejudice at all in that with us.

This is America, and everybody should have a right to say what they want to say. But I think there's a time and a place for it.

Families do not stop living. We have got to keep going on. This is what people do.

Nothing was easy for us coming up. But we were rich in family.

I actually quit the business. I went and drove a truck for a year and a half.

If you're only a fan of the old music, that music's gonna wind up sounding even older.

My dad was a truck driver, and from the time I was knee high to a grapevine, I was driving a truck.

I want to be there for the last note of 'Freebird' when that happens.

We've got to take some drastic steps in this country. We can't keep spending and spending.

Look at Montgomery Gentry. If those boys came out in the '70s, they'd be Southern rock.

Some people would do anything just to get a break; that's where the bad guys get you.

We have to make a living, sure, but it's about the legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd and what it stands for, what the fans are all about.

I think, hey, everybody has a right to change their mind.

Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been a bunch of rowdy, crazy people, but we love our fans, and that's what the music is all about: touching them. Touching them touches us.

If people can't relate to something, there's no use of the song being there.

People are asking us, 'Why have you gone country?' And we say, 'Man, we were born country.' They gave us the tag 'Southern rock' years ago as a way of not saying country.

We have doctors and lawyers and CEOs as fans.

My dad was a truck driver. We all used to ride along with him. And the way he'd keep awake was to sing while he was going down the road. So we all joined in.