Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

If you really dig a chick, you should talk to her, not steal her picture.

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I’m not doing any of that right now. I don’t have any axes to grind.

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.