[Touring] is not necessarily a priority. It's just a part of who I am as a performer. That's obviously why I'm doing it; why I'm in this business is part of me has to perform.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron. . . . I should have been able to do better.
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
YOU HAVE A VAAGGGIINNAAA!
It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task. . . tremendous and foolish and human.
It's basically a city of songwriters and that's what gives it it's strength, that's what gives it its lasting ability. You've got people making all different kinds of music and that's what attracts me to Nashville as Music City.