As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

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.

Behind every dark cloud there's usually rain

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

I’d play my nose now, but I’m... it’s... my nose is... out being fixed!

Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn’t make any difference how many dollars you have - at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite.

Just because you can thrill a toddler by chewing with your mouth open doesn’t mean you should.