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

What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

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

Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.

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.

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