I'm involved with Satanists and activities.
I'm here to be lovesick, broke and drifting, writing heartache songs and singing about pain and misery and depression, with a few good times here and there.
Hank Williams was playing rock-n-roll before rock-n-roll was.
There's a lot of different moods that come across in my shows. Even when I'm playing a slow waltz song, sometimes there's crowd-surfing. Most of the time there's a mosh pit.
We're kind of like the Kurt Cobain of country music in a way.
George Jones, Johnny Paycheck all them dudes they're respected and they were twice as crazy as I'll ever be.
Politics and music should only mix to a point. Me, I think my job as a musician is to make people try to forget about all that.
I told all my punk friends, 'If I'm gonna do country music, I'm gonna milk it.'
It's right there on my birth certificate, 'Shelton Hank Williams III.' It's not fake.
If I'm opening up for George Jones or playing a complete honky-tonk, I do true country music. But if it's a complete rock club, I'll do some country and a little bit of this hillbilly acoustic country metal or whatever it's called.
The only person out there worthy of mixing political views and music is Jello Biafra.
The best music out there isn't on the radio.
I'm a musician... not a politician.
I don't like being told what to do, and I don't need to be told what my record should sound like.
You can't say I don't work hard and give all I got.
It seems that pop country has stuck around a long time.
I still believe in hope and that a good song will push itself.
It's really tough - if you're on a major label and they want you to have a number one song, you need to do what they say.
Each Hank Williams has always had an independent streak.
I've always known the kind of songs I wanted to sing and play.
