"Well Shit, that’s COUNTRY music!"

"I had nine songs finished and I needed one more, then I could take 'em and go make a record because as you know records have 10 songs. So I sat down at the piano to make up one more song and then it occurred to me. I was doing something I'd never done before. I always made up a song because I had something to say or something to get off my chest. Making up a song just to have another song? I thought, 'Well shit, that's COUNTRY music!'" -- Todd Snider, introduction to "Money, Compliments, Publicity (Song Number 10)" live in Reno, NV, Sept. 13, 2009