When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

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

I think everyone's voice is unique. Although sometimes when you listen to the radio, it makes you wonder.

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.

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.

It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.