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

A lot of singers that I've heard that I may not like their sensibility, but I see that they're entitled to whatever they get. People don't get there without talent, they really don't.

I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing with her I seized it. Getting to know her as a singer and a person has been pure pleasure. Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.

I only notice the clothes I'm wearing.

This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.

You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.

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