I just think if the song's good, sing it. I don't care who's doing it. I don't care if it's a country act. I don't care if it's a rock act. If the song's good, sing it.

All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.

I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.

I know there's a balance, I see it when I swing past.

To say that we're doomed is just an obvious remark.

If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.

Now I do have a choice, and I'm not going to do anything I don't want to do.