If it's not too late, make it a cheese-burger

Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

Writin songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent idea, the songs are the easy part. Actually having something to say is the hard part. If you get an idea for a song, then it pulls you along. There are just some ideas that you get that are really hard to edit out; it's hard to stop thinking about some bad ideas. So you just finish it and you end up putting it on a record.

Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop.

What would we do if we didn't try? We have to try.

You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.