The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

Every song that I start to write, I wonder if I'll be able to write it.

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from.

I was the audience he wanted to reach. Gram Parsons' writing brought his own personal generations poetry and vision into the very traditional format of country music, and he came up with something completely different