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.

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

Don't object so much, you'll live longer.

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

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.

It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force - but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere.

I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a dream.