He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.

I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that.

My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.

I'm not going to waste a second feeling sorry for myself because I'm not a bigger star than I am. I can walk down the street in most places in the world and I still drive really nice cars.

I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.