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

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 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.

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

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.

I really believe that we have a responsibility, almost a sacred responsibility, to the animals that share this planet with us.