- Townes van Zandt: Breaking even is ending up in Purgatory as far as I can tell. I figure there's heaven, purgatory, hell and the blues. I'm trying to crawl up from the blues, purgatory for me would be... Home Sweet Home!
- Guy Clark - Musician: I saw him do stuff when he was just perfect. Perfectly at ease, relaxed, not fucked up, just high just having fucking 1965 feel hippy high playing his fucking heart out - songs that just took your breath away.
- Guy Clark - Musician: That's our job to try to hit that mark.
- William Hedgepeth - Audio Conversations with Townes Van Zandt: How come most of your songs are sad songs?
- Townes van Zandt: I don't think they're all that sad. I have a few that aren't sad, they're like... hopeless. Totally hopeless situation and the rest aren't sad they're just the way it goes. I mean you know you don't think life's sad.
- Townes van Zandt: Aloneness is a state of being whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like being broke and being poor.
- Townes van Zandt: I feel aloneness all the time and loneliness I hardly ever feel.
- Townes van Zandt: I saw him do stuff when he was just perfect. Perfectly at ease, relaxed, not fucked up, just high just having fucking 1965 feel hippy high playing his fucking heart out - songs that just took your breath away.
- Townes van Zandt: That's our job to try to hit that mark.