I get a lot of sleep on the bus. I bring two dogs with me, who keep me grounded. I guess that's just in my soul. It's good to know that you're good at something.

It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't.

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

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'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.

The only time I ever appeared in the Enquirer was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I’m not much of a wild child.

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