Love and only love will endure. Hate is everything you think it is. Love and only love will break it down.

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.

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

I've seen the needle and the damage done.

Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.

We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image.

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.