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.

I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.

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

The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame.

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.

Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.

Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.