Rock and roll is here to stay.

You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are.

I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can.

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.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right after I hung up the phone, I wrote another song and started writing another, and I'm going, "Hey, I can't wait. I should be doing this now!" My experience tells me that when it's there, it's there, and you can't make it wait. So I got Jimmy Keltner and Paul Bushnell, two good guys, and went in and did this record ["Peace Trail"].

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.