“The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.”

Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.

To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.

You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

We were just in line to see what was going to happen.

We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.

The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.

What a long strange trip it’s been.

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.

I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.

Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.

The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.

American society has gone completely into denial.

Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.

Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.

My dogs are crazy. They’re always getting into some kind of trouble but then again, they’re my most loyal friends.

In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down.

I love men and I like to get their attention.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

When you start thinking you may get hurt, it’s time to get out of racing.

You see people in the left lane, and as long as they are on the speed limit, they stay there. Get in the right lane and let people pass you.