The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes.

Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with sightless eyes.

People who listen to my records expect the ballads from me. The rock 'n roll is on there because it's another mode of expression.

Longer than there've been fishes in the ocean, higher than any bird ever flew, longer than there've been stars up in the heavens, I've been in love with you.

I love Don Williams records. And old Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe.

The people who come to me are the people who are meant to come to me.

Around the time the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, I was already in a band.