I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

I ain't ever satisfied.

I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.

I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.

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