I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.

Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.

There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living

I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.

Who keeps on loving you when you've been lying, saying things that ain't what they seem? God does, but I don't. God will, but I won't.

Writin songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent idea, the songs are the easy part. Actually having something to say is the hard part. If you get an idea for a song, then it pulls you along. There are just some ideas that you get that are really hard to edit out; it's hard to stop thinking about some bad ideas. So you just finish it and you end up putting it on a record.