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.

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

I'm so grateful that I'm able to do something about this passion that I have for shelter animals. In a strange way, it completes me. It means so much to me and makes me feel like I'm truly making a difference.

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

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.