“You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.”

Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.

You can’t put this possum in a cage

I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,

Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.

There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.

I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.

No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.

Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.

I would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.

I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.

Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow.

Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.

Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.

Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.

Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I’m an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I’ve got out there,

I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.

Maybe that’s why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.

Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way – stay out.

My ability to adapt has always stood out. I’ve been immersed in many worlds and have had the influence of many things in my upbringing so I’m familiar with so many styles of living, so many characters, so many life paths and its just easy to simulate for me.

Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.

If you can make it through the age of social media and come out with the same friends and lover, kudos!

When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.