There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.
As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.
Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.
I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted.
As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me.
When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.
Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.
Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.
I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.
You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.
I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don't feel that I can even take any credit for it, but it's such a huge presence in my life. It is my life. It's my identity, it's everything. And it's given me a great deal of joy and a sense of purpose - I can't imagine my life without it.
Yes, I always say that we're a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to sing. So I always call our drummer up. Even the drummer has to take a turn on the microphone.
You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but I'm not the grieving widow. Life is much more complicated and interesting and full of zigs and zags than that.
Every life is precious.
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.
I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.
If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!
The only time I ever appeared in the 'Enquirer' was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I'm not much of a wild child.
Well, I've always been eclectic.
