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I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

- Jason Isbell
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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.

The more you read, the better you are at writing, no matter what you're writing. A lot of songwriters miss that and don't see the connection there, and I've always felt like you're more able to communicate if you have a bigger toolbox to work with.

People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse.

I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.

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.

I've always wanted to pull off 'No One is to Blame' by Howard Jones. I've done that a couple times in solo shows, but I can't figure out how to do that with a full band and make it work.

If I spent my time wondering about what genre I wanted to be in or where I was on the charts, I wouldn't be able to write these kinds of song. I'd be too busy doing other things.

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.

I always think that's neat, when you can hear a story told from different points of view, different perspectives.

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I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.