You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

An artist has gotta be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's at somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

People ask me who is my favorite country artist. I say, you mean besides George Jones.

There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.

Every true artist is at war with the world.