I'm living in a world that was created a hundred years ago with vaudeville and people traveling around and medicine shows and things and making live music on stage and I'm still doing that. I like it that way. I like to present something to people that's had 40 years of being honed and perfected. It's something that you're not going to find with an artist who's been around for two or three years, or even ten years.

I'm gonna say this and I really mean it - I'm very thankful that I'm not a huge star. I've all the stardom and celebrity that I can handle. But I also have peace and quiet. I am left alone. And I am not recognized everywhere I go and it's perfect. I can come and fill the theatres and I get on stage ... people say: "Well, oh yeah, that must be him," you know?

A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.

There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space.

Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.

Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky, a dream come true, I'll live there til I die.

Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.