Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf.

Holding you, I held everything.

I wore bell bottoms in elementary school. Never wore elephant bells. Remember, this was middle Oklahoma in the '70s.

James Taylor and God are the reasons I play music.

People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.

It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.

I hear them saying, "You'll never change things, and no matter what you do it's still the same thing." But it's not the world that I am changing. I do this so this world will know that it will not change me.