I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

Innovation comes from the Latin, “Innovare” - It means to change or alter things that already exist.

We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because, in England, he wouldn't be trusted with a pair of scissors.

Loaming is my special word for it..it's a combination of looming and roaming

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

I can play, and I know it; I'm not looking for any pats on the back. I don't have to be endorsed by anybody. I make enough to live and eat, and I'm happy with my music-and that's all I need.

Fun drunks make a nice addition to any party. Not looking to fight. Not looking to score. Just looking to get drunk and laugh.

Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.

Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good.