It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.

Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered die.

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"].

Bad news is just an excuse.

There were some things Reagan liked that I liked. The main component was that people have to talk to each other and help themselves.

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

I like to play with people who can play simple and are not threatened by other musicians thinking they can't play. And that eliminates 99 percent of the musicians.