I try to make statements that aren’t broad because that doesn’t make for good writing. I don’t get commentary as my job, because I’m not very good at that. The way I do it is by writing songs, and I have to be small; I have to make the stories a bit personal. Jason Isbell Read Quote
It’s nice to feel like you have more in common with people rather than more differences. Jason Isbell Read Quote
I feel like for me to write songs that I would be interested in as a listener, there has to be tension, and there has to be some kind of push and pull between reality and the potential of disaster. Jason Isbell Read Quote
I feel like people have a lot of the same good times and the same interests pretty much anywhere. Jason Isbell Read Quote
My wife may be the role model for our daughter in some ways, but I think I represent what she’ll put up with. You know, I think one day she’ll say, ‘OK my dad behaved this way, so if whoever I happen to fall in love with behaves this way it’s got to be OK because I love my dad.’ Jason Isbell Read Quote
Whatever needed to be done, I need to know how to do it just as well as my wife. You know, for us to be able to really balance the parenting. It was very humbling, and it was also, um – terrifying. Because, you know, giving a baby a bath for the first time is one of the scariest things you can do on this whole earth. Jason Isbell Read Quote
I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of good songwriters, and I try to actually work on the craft of writing a song rather than just leaving it up to inspiration. Jason Isbell Read Quote
If I could write rock & roll songs on purpose, I’d do it all the time. But most of what I write comes out slow and sad because that’s most of what I listen to. Jason Isbell Read Quote
I don’t start a song with an idea of what ingredients are going to go into a song. It’s not like a recipe. I will normally either talk from personal experience or I’ll make a character and then try to allow that character to behave the way he or she naturally would. Jason Isbell Read Quote
