You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't.

Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl

I'm not going out there and doing the same material every night. I have this amazing audience of fans who have been listening to me, some of them since 1975.

I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted.

I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.