Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.

The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.

I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you're going to hear it in the music.

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

If you're an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it's hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity. They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame