I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.

Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.

They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.

I started going out with one of my managers and he really grew me up in a lot of ways. He introduced me not just to being a full-time traveler, which I was, but he was also really very interested in history and art and continued to open my eyes up to regional history; less splashy histories. He was interested in historical societies and stuff like that. He introduced me to a way of looking at the way communities form that is the foundation for the book that I've just finished writing that has to do with what I see as effective community-building wherever I've been traveling.

...we're all in a soup of trying to live by words, and trying to live by poetry. It's both humbling, and really flattering to know that my words are part of all that.