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

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.

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

Behind every dark cloud there's usually rain

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

People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.

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.