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

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.

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't.

I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.

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