I wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got.

There's a time where people were out holding posters in protest outside shows I was doing, and thankfully, we've moved past that. And a lot of country stations wouldn't play me. They were more conservative than I was.

I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and setting up the studios at Columbia for a couple of years and working every other week down in the Gulf of Mexico flying helicopters. I didn't really get to just write songs for about five years.

Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.

My mother, Maxine, was married at 16 to my father Raymond, and in 56 years together, he was the only man she ever had.

I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.