I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

I don't record (any type of genre of music) that I didn't hear in my family's living room by the time I was 10. It just is my rule that I don't break because ... I can't do it authentically ... I really think that you're just hard-wiring (synapses) in your brain up until the age of maybe 12 or 10, and there are certain things you can't learn in an authentic way after that.

Mainly, when I ran into Emmylou Harris, that was it, you know? We could finish each other's sentences musically, and personally, too. We have a very shared, similar sensibility. And that was a friendship that really opened up a tremendous number of musical doors for me.

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.