“Traveling the world has really let me appreciate what’s unique about the United States; not in a jingoistic way, in a cultural way. We’ve got to hold on to the regional, the authentic, the roots…in everything, not just music. We shouldn’t become a bland homogenized monolith. It’s in the music, it’s in the food, it’s in the dirt; you just have to turn off the TV and find it; that’s how I like to live.”  
-Nick ...

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