I realized the only time I felt complete and peaceful was while I was playing or shortly afterwards, even though it was in front of thousands of other people, which most people wouldn't consider to be a safe place.

I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.

When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.

The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.

T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.

My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins.

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.