Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

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 have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

I don't usually read reviews.

Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing. A recording is just a record of part of the experience, but it's not the whole experience.

I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.

I ain't ever satisfied.