The best way to catch a horse is to build a fence around it.

You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but I'm not the grieving widow. Life is much more complicated and interesting and full of zigs and zags than that.

A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition.

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.

It's basically a city of songwriters and that's what gives it it's strength, that's what gives it its lasting ability. You've got people making all different kinds of music and that's what attracts me to Nashville as Music City.

It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.