Chris Robinson

It's completely false.

I mean, you're... And you can see where, you know, personally...

I think you're starting to see culturally where that hollowness and that falseness isn't helping.

It's not... Well, it's funny when you say that, the virtuous part of it.

That's funny, too, because, you know...

especially, like, you know, the lobby of your place is full of pictures of famous people who have been arrested for shit.

Yeah, all my mugshots.

And it's like, I mean, in a way, in a counterculture way, whether it's a poet, a musician, a jazz musician, anyone, you know, Robert Mitchum.

You know Robert Mitchum's cooler than Kurt Douglas?

Because he got busted for smoking pot, okay?

So Robert Mitchum's cooler than you, Kurt Douglas.

But...

The outsider in culture.

You know what I mean?

The loser and the outsider are other themes that we do not celebrate as much.

And I'm not talking about some fabricated pop star who pouts and is like, look how dark I am.

You know what I mean?

That's not...

what I'm talking about no and that's always there again showbiz and corporate things you know can manipulate these kind of archetypes yes and put them in the genre specific things that they want because they know yeah that's that's not that's that's something formulating a rebel is so gross yeah yeah totally oh my god a formulated rebel a disingenuous formulated rebel

I mean, it's funny because that's, you know, more than ever, not just for the fact that I really had to go through certain things to come full circle with my career and my brother and what the Black Crows mean.