My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

Control success before it controls you.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.

I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.

Damn, her mouth was a weapon.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

The smell of cooking food is often a calming one.

I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.

As you get older, you get tired of doing the same things over and over again, so you think Christmas has changed. It hasn't. It's you who has changed.

Bruises fade. Death is permanent.

Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.

I didn't handle fame very well at first. I got a little resentful.

Richard Burton was Welsh; Tom Jones is Welsh, and we Welshmen like to think of ourselves as heroes - on screen and off!