My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.

There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not.I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.

God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.

Canadian Railroad Trilogy is an extremely fine piece of songwriting.

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.