I can't imagine not having a reason to get out of bed at night.

Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to make music. It takes a commitment - a tremendous, thick-skinned commitment of being the first one to get there and the last one to leave, doing what you want to do even if you have to work twice as hard as anybody else ever did.

I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.

There's a lathered sorrel stallion running through the Joshua trees and a young man in the saddle with his coat tails in the breeze. He's got a six gun on his right hip and a rifle at his knees and he's dealing in a game that he can't win.

I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be it - it's that long.

I ain't askin' nobody for nuttin' if I cain't get it on my own.

I have people talking about, "Boy, I hate to go to work." I love to go to work!