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.

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

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'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted.

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

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