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" I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan. "

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" To me acting and singing are worlds apart. "

" 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. "

" I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons. I learned how to listen to George Jones records and the Louvin Brothers. "

" I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical. "

" 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. "

" 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 know, I'm a fan of Laurie Anderson. One of my favorite records is 'The Ugly One With the Jewels,' a spoken-word record. It's an extraordinary album. "

" I'm nowhere with country music. I don't hear much of it, so I shouldn't venture an opinion, but when it finds me, it seems formulaic. "

" 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. "

" Somehow, when you think about yourself in old age, you think you're going to be this completely different person that you don't even recognize - because you can't imagine it, you know? "

" I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first. "

" As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears. "

" I didn't have any money. I had a sense of terrible loss. But what I also had was a fire in my belly. I wasn't going to go back to waiting tables. I felt I had to be better at fronting a band. "

" I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature. "

" 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. "

" I find with records, they become what they're going to become. They take on a power and a direction of their own. Part of making records is to honor that and not try to force it. "

" I'm even able to have kind of a little bit of a second career in dog rescue. Doesn't pay anything, but it's become a real passion for me. "

" I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about. "

" I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do. "

" You really do learn every day with every dog; they are all so unique and different. But if you're patient and you understand where they're coming from, and if you are consistent, they will be fine. They teach you to give your full attention. "

" Country taught me how to sing, it put me on a path. But I was never going to be locked into a formula. I don't want to be considered a current country artist. "

" Well, I've always been eclectic. "

" Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote. "

" In 1974 I was trying to get my first little band together. That year marked kind of a traumatic point in my life, but I had a lot of support from friends and family and a lot of good things ended up coming out of it. "

" When there are dogs and music, people have a good time. "

" 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. "