It's right there on my birth certificate, 'Shelton Hank Williams III.' It's not fake.
Over the years, Cajun music has always calmed me down, or if I'm feeling real sick or feeling real unsettled, I can put that music on and try to get focused again.
I could have took the easy way and just been a cowboy, looking good, trying to make my money off Hank Williams and being this clean-cut guy. But I always wanted to be myself and go against the grain.
I was like, 'I'm never gonna do country, I'm never gonna give in, you'll never see me wear a cowboy hat.'
The only thing I got of my granddaddy's is a necktie.
We definitely get respect as far as the musicianship, working hard and being road dogs.
I'll never outdo Hank Williams. That's impossible.
Hank Williams was playing rock-n-roll before rock-n-roll was.
My mom was always playing Elvis around the house or ZZ Top, so there was always rock-n-roll and country being played.
We're bringing together the country folks and the rockers.
I was always a Pink Floyd fan, and I was always into movie soundtracks.
My relationship with my dad will always be strained, but that just goes to show, I guess, that I'm doin' a pretty good job of bein' myself, and bein' a rebel.
There's a lot of different moods that come across in my shows. Even when I'm playing a slow waltz song, sometimes there's crowd-surfing. Most of the time there's a mosh pit.
