Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.