All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

I had everything I need to get me killed.

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.

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.

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

If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

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