I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.
Keith Moon was the funniest guy around. The stuff he did was insane. He was like somebody straight out of the movies.
We didn't have much money when I was younger, so I had to collect Coke bottles and cash them in and get a paper route to afford a guitar. That guitar from Sears came with a case and an amp and everything all in one. It was really cool.
We want to challenge Marilyn Manson and the rap people with the bad lyrics to write some positive songs.
I've always used the Peavey Mace equipment. I've got a few of them. They're kind of like Marshalls. You know, we used to use Marshalls, but Peaveys just seem to last longer and push the sound better.
Our redneck reputation back then was originally just because we had long hair. Back in the '60s and the early '70s, in the South that was kind of a no-no. At all the Army and Navy bases we'd play, we would get into fights with the soldiers over our hair. But I think our music overshadowed everything else.
Man, I love Limp Bizkit, Johnny Lange, many people.
You go through stuff, and you keep going.
Everybody's got a right to their own opinion, you know?
We loved Neil Young and all the music he's given the world.
We travel all over the world, and it seems like the South is the place where the people are nicest and they think of the fellow man more.
Buffalo Springfield had three guitar players, and we thought they were so cool. So we started doing the three-guitar thing, and people started calling us the 'guitar army' and all this stuff.
I could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different.
We wore blue jeans and T-shirts. Our music was our gimmick.
Our parents helped us, or we wouldn't be here. Lacy Van Zant and my mother used to sign for amps or loan us money to get to the gig or take us in their car. It's just like little sports guys - Little League and football players - whose parents help them. That's why they get good.
If Marilyn Manson would write a song that says, 'Do your damn homework,' it would make the world a better place, and it wouldn't hurt him at all. And if he doesn't like it, to hell with him. He can come fight us - by the bicycle racks.
Through the years, people like the KKK and skinheads kinda kidnapped the Dixie or Southern flag from its tradition and the heritage of the soldiers.
Sometimes music isn't the way to talk politics, you know?
I've got two lives. Weekends, I go out and play rock star. Weekdays, I play granddad. You can't beat that.
I think that 'God & Guns' turned out a little more 'country' than we wanted it to be.
