Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

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

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

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

The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both.