It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.

Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.

Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right.

It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

Songs are more powerful than books.

I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned to country music, like The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, but particularly through The Byrds because of Gram Parsons, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman (with their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo). They kind of introduced English kids to Merle Haggard and George Jones and the Louvins (brothers Charlie and Ira).