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

Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.

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'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.

I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.

I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.

I'm not a Democrat; I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.