One of these days I will be an old man in a rocking chair on a porch. Wouldn't it be nice to have my whole life there to read and kind of re-live it.

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.

You got to be pretty thin to be in the movies, or it helps. I would actually love to do it.

I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

I was talking to Jackson Browne on the phone. He said, 'I'm the slowest writer in the world.' I said, 'No, no, no. You're the second slowest. It seems the older you get the slower they come. I wonder if it is like that for everybody?' He said, 'It ain't with Don Henley. He seems to be writing more than ever.'"