There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

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

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.

A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

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