Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

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.

My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.

With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

I always play more than I talk, so the more I talk, the more I'll play.

I watched the needle take another man.