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 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'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.

I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical.

The only time I ever appeared in the Enquirer was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I’m not much of a wild child.

I really believe that we have a responsibility, almost a sacred responsibility, to the animals that share this planet with us.

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.