It's hard to find a girl with a heart of gold, when you're living in a four letter world.

Excitable boy, they all said, he killed and raped her and brought her home.

At least I've had one foot in a very normal kind of life.

That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.

And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

When I was young, times were hard. When I got older it was worse.