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

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

Yes, I always say that were a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to sing. So I always call our drummer up. Even the drummer has to take a turn on the microphone.

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

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.