I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darling, than know the emptiness that your heart must hide.

I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.

I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that`s right now.

She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live.

If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome those - which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious. So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open. And you jump in and join all those people that are out there enjoying what you're doing together.

Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.

The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.