Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate.

Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.

Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.

I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.

Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment.

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?