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

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

I'm not going out there and doing the same material every night. I have this amazing audience of fans who have been listening to me, some of them since 1975.

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 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.