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.

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

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

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.

I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.

I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.