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" I never thought of myself as a rock singer. I was interested in songs like 'Heart Like a Wheel,' and I liked the others for about 15 minutes. "

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" I didn't know why I couldn't sing - all I knew was that it was muscular or mechanical. Then, when I was diagnosed with Parkinson's, I was finally given the reason. I now understand that no one can sing with Parkinson's disease. No matter how hard you try. And in my case, I can't sing a note. "

" I always sang harmony with my family growing up. "

" You don't want people who have never had to deal with adversity - you want people who have been able to deal successfully with adversity. That's what adds to society. Those are going to be the hardest-working, best people. "

" I got to sing with Placido Domingo... I got to sing with Aaron Neville, who is one of my favorites. Got to sing with Brian Wilson, one of the great high tenors. And Ricky Skaggs, a bluegrass tenor. I'm also proud of my musical friendship with Emmylou Harris. "

" I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want to try that.' "

" I'm your basic atheist that believes in maybe - I'm a spiritual atheist. "

" I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization. "

" Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later. "

" I can't really walk well. The muscles don't get the electronic signals from my brain, not that there's anything wrong with the muscles themselves. It's just my brain. "

" Songwriting wasn't my gift. I think you have to cultivate a gift; you have to practice and develop craft around your gift so that you can execute it in more convenient, efficient ways. "

" I had a lot of chances to do things that other people don't ever get, and I have to be content with that. I have to look around for some other way to make myself useful. "

" Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems. "

" I didn't love Jim Morrison. There was something very reptilian about him. And I didn't care for his singing, but his band! The Doors were fantastic. "

" I love everything soft, cashmere and down. I don't like anything scratchy. "

" Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing. "

" The music that I chose during my life, it wasn't arbitrary. It was all in my family home when I was growing up. I never tried to record anything I hadn't heard before the age of 10. Otherwise, I couldn't do it authentically. "

" In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more. "

" People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and they're usually 98 percent wrong. "

" I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage something that may be rather nice. "

" I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do. "

" It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know. "

" Men are very delicate. They don't like being rejected. "

" The smell of the carpet in a hotel room is the same everywhere. "

" Ninety-eight percent of the singing I did was private singing - it was in the shower, at the dishwasher, driving my car, singing with the radio, whatever. I can't do any of that now. I wish I could. I don't miss performing, particularly, but I miss singing. "

" Parkinson's is very hard to diagnose. So when I finally went to a neurologist, and he said, 'Oh, you have Parkinson's disease,' I was completely shocked. "

" I used to live with J.D. Souther, and I would watch him write. He's be sitting, he'd say something, and then he'd write it down. That's craft. "

" I had a galvanised voice: I could sing through a 105 fever or a flu or a root canal or anything that you could throw at me. "

" I used to feel kind of impatient with people who couldn't do things fast or couldn't remember stuff. "

" You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down. "

" For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't. "