I'll sleep when I'm dead.

To me, the message of my songs, of all songs, is "enjoy life." My message as a person who evidently doens't have much more planned is the same. It's the only message I ever thought art had any business having.

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

Maybe you simply criticized someone you hardly knew. You ruined part of their life. For them, part of your life, too.

I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.

Your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase.

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