The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

Let’s have the music that will open the door to millions of people… the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer… not music that...

We’ve done that over the years, each of us releasing solos. I think that’s why we’re still together. That freedom doesn’t keep us too restricted.

I don’t take part in it the way I used to-the bimbos, the free beers, free drugs, all that. That’s still there if you want it, but I don’t really seek that out any more.

We basically believe in nature more than anything else; that’s why the new album, October Rust, has a strong pagan element to it.

I don’t think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.

Back then it was nothing like today. So you’d go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could be in the back and you could make out, you know? And you know how hot...

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

I love decorating my home. I’m a gardener too, so that’s usually something I have to play catch up with.

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than...

I’m 23 years old. I might just be my mother’s child, but in all reality, I’m everybody’s child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

I like to make great albums.

The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That’s the key.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother.

As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don’t. I don’t think the label I’m on necessarily gets it, but I...

War is not civilized.

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.

Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.

In this business, it is very hard to have anything for yourself, because you become a public figure. That comes with the territory.

Quite frankly, I’ve always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

One of the album’s songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don’t want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that’s been playing in my head when it...

So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I’m going to do it myself. I’m not going...

I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.

I didn’t say I wasn’t gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain’t gonna sing no song that ain’t a country song. I won’t be known as anything but a country singer.

You only get better by playing.

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I’m working on.

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.

You’re successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.

I’m very fond of drugs.

So what the owners see is that we are fighting amongst each other and causing controversy, but as long as it’s selling records they don’t care.

I came along at a time when the industry was eating its young.

Two days ago, I was killed in LA. CNN reported that. What if my grandmother had seen that and had a heart attack? People talk about lyrical content. There is no media responsibility. Movies, the...

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I’m confident that we’ll eventually figure it out.

It was a difficult road for What Is This. Their business did not come easy. Eventually, the lack of success forced different directions.

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.

We would do almost anything to survive at that time. We were living on a pound of bologna, a loaf of bread and a jar of mayonnaise each week.

That still has to be there. And so, it’s kind of an interesting question you brought up. Because, on the one hand, yeah, it’d be lovely. I certainly don’t see that happening. In fact, I...

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can’t contrive a song.

Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.