Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.

I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.