I love singing. The joy of singing live - I don't think I will ever stop that.

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

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.

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.

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 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