The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

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.

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

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.