There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path.

What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer.

I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.

An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.