This is one of the most fantastic things we could do for this kid in town. I put the boots on and if I could help a local kid who put the boots on I will.

The kid did a fantastic job.

One must always have one's boots on and be ready to go.

I see the most depressing town that you've ever been to, where there's only one thing to do, and that's go to work at the factory, get married and have kids. This girl was so afraid that she was going to die there. 'Sing a Bible song over me' obviously means her funeral. She just wasn't going to put up with that life, and so she ran. Lori McKenna is very cool. She writes really differently ... very abstract. The song means something to her, but you have to interpret it in your own way and figure out your own way to relate to it.

What boots it at one gate to make defence,/ And at another to let in the foe?

He was walking around like one of the guys. You're a kid, you've just beaten Arkansas, somebody says, 'Congratulations' and you say, 'Thanks, buddy!' and start slapping backs, not realizing it's the president of the United States.