I think it’s really funny when the people on Fox News say that people should keep their politics out of music, because music has never been not political. It has always been about displacement and taboo topics and breaking boundaries.

I couldn’t stand any of the songs that were played today. They sounded like donkeys. I hate yodeling. I had always thought that these songs were trying way too hard to be country, and I guess I was right. They were presenting stylized versions of what they thought was folk and country. It just so happens that it all sounded terrible.