I don't think I'm tangible to myself.

Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My songs don't have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them.

Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.

The highlight of my career? That's easy, Elvis recording one of my songs.