I have no idea who's steering, and I don't really care .. I just keep going whatever the inclination is ... there are threads that are continuous and hold everything together and a major thread is country music.

Because the record companies, in their ultimate wisdom, seeing what a great thing digital was, they sold all the places where they made records. Now people want records and they haven't got a facility to make them in, so it takes months and months and months to get vinyl. Vinyl is ultimately much better.

You can't ride the rails anymore in this country, but you can follow the Grateful Dead.

If fidelity really mattered, 'Loveless' wouldn't be one of the best records of all time.

I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.

I've thought about every single word on this album for two years; I'd think about a tweet for 20 seconds. My album's gonna go out to, what, 10 million people, but a tweet could go out to a billion. The maths doesn't work out. I'll die on the hill of my records, but I won't die on the hill of my tweets. It's better to say good things less than to say average things more.