I'm really glad I didn't have kids earlier, because I probably would have ignored them. I was so into my career. I could just go and play a ton of shows, night after night after night. I can't do that anymore.

Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

It was 22 years of work in a row, right up until 1987. Twenty-two years in a row-either on tour, writing an album, or recording an album. It wasn't until 1987 that I was able to take a breath.

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.

When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.