If you fall in love with somebody, then you're not even worried about your bills. Love can take your mind off of anything.

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus!.

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.