Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.