You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.

The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.

Don't surrender to the dying light; don't take it lying down.

You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.

I came out to California from Texas, to the Haight, and the Fillmore and all that stuff, and totally got the bug.

In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community in Austin, for artists and audiences alike

The hurt of a love that is lost has no cure but the love of another heart.