"When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas."

"I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own."

"Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted."

"Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness."

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."

"It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art."

"Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful."

"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate."