In this world, you've a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings.

You've gotta know happy. You've gotta know sad. 'Cause you're gonna know lonely and you're gonna know sad

As far as politically how country music goes, it's true that it's regarded from a distance as a genre of music that at different times, the more right elements of the political spectrum have claimed for their own.

Sometimes you get there in spite of the route Losing track of your life and what it's about The road seems to know when to straighten right out... I could wonder if all of it led me to you I could show you the arrows and circles I drew I didn't have a map, it's the best I could do On the fly and on the run

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

The light of the moon is all we've got to go on...

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.