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

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.

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

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

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

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.