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" Well, I'm just very blessed that I still love my work and I can still work, I still have an audience and I love what I do. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I really have shaken hands with where my voice is right now. I think it's got a little deeper; it's got some more grooves in it. "

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

" My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they - any parent hopes for their child. "

" 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. "

" Well, I've always been eclectic. "

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" I think I can be pretty focused, but as I say, it was more wanting to be the good student, seeing myself as a good student, and also, my parents had expectations. They wouldn't have cared if I got a B or a C or even a D. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a trained musician. When folks talk about 'Well, you go to this or that' - the tenor, or the third part - I don't really know what they're talking about. "

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

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" If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so! "

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" I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material. "

" I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. "

" 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. "

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

" To me acting and singing are worlds apart. "

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