When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.

Last word in lonesome is me.

Stay busy and take care of your own business.

I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

He could make mistakes.... the first time.

Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.

People who believe in gun control are ignorant, superstitious or stupid.

A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.

At the state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Hu opened a fortune cookie that said, 'You will lend us another trillion dollars.'

To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.

Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.