I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that in somehow the chips capture the soul of a player, that's patent nonsense.

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

You'll never be alone in the bone orchard.

I feel like a juggler running out of hands.

It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.

And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.