Country music is three chords and the truth.

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.

Work is both my living and my pleasure.

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins.

New links must be forged as old ones rust.

She was a patron saint of the peripheral.