Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No ones illegal. They should just be able to come.

I just thought that I was going to get to sing for a living and I wouldn't have to go to work in the department store or whatever else you did if you were a woman in those days.

Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.

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

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