We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.

I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones.

I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.

Nothing is perfect...We're really more interested in what we're saying than how we're saying it.

All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.