I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold.

That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.

I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.

There's more to a picture than meets the eye.

Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.

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.

Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered die.