Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.

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 constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

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 can sing better after shooting smack in both arms than after eating too much.

The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.