Patsy Cline belongs shoulder-to-shoulder with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.

There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.

I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.

Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"?