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.

I think everyone's voice is unique. Although sometimes when you listen to the radio, it makes you wonder.

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.

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'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical.

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

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.