Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.

Bad news is just an excuse.

I started writing "Peace Trail" here in Colorado, then I went back to California. I had a few other tunes going around in my head, so I had a couple of them finished after a few days and then I wanted to go into the studio.

Said the condor to the preying mantis, we're gonna lose this place just like we lost Atlantis.

It's cool to go places where working people are happy.

I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.

My songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way they were recorded is the old Nashville way ... they sound as country or more country than a lot of things that are on country radio.