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.

The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both.

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

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

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.

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

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