Tom's Country View

"I wrote [this song] after my wife left me. Genesis had done a tour that was far too long. ...  I wrote the lyrics spontaneously. I’m not quite sure what the song is about, but there’s a lot of anger, a lot of despair and a lot of frustration. ... Nobody knows what the song is about, and I kind of like the mystery." (Phil Collins / rollingstone.com, February 29, 2016)

"... and then The Mocking Bird & The Crow, the one song where it transitions, he's playing the first half of that song and then he just walks off stage, gets to an SUV, rockstars over to the Roxy and then starts the Crow-portion. It's just gonna be epic." (Tracker Johnson, Manager Big Loud Records / via YouTube, January 12, 2024)

"Horses evolved in the Americas around four million years ago, but by about 10,000 years ago, they had mostly disappeared from the fossil record. Spanish settlers likely first brought horses back to the Americas in 1519, when Hernán Cortés arrived on the continent in Mexico. [Subsequently], Indigenous peoples then transported horses north along trade networks."   (Will Sullivan / www.smithsonianmag.com, April 3, 2023)

"' World on Fire' is a series that shows us just what humanity is capable of — both good and evil — and reminds us that those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it." (Jace Lacob / www.pbs.org, September 17, 2023)

"There’s something poetic about a 39-year-old man winning new artist of the year. I don’t know where you’re at in your life or what you’re going through, but I want to tell you to keep going, baby. I want to tell you, success is on the other side." (Jelly Roll /  CMA Awards, November 8, 2023)