I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

The money needed to run for office, the money spent on lobbying by special interests, the ever increasing economic disparity and the well-funded legislative decisions all favour corporate interests over the people's.

A lot of people that buy vinyl today don’t realise that they’re listening to CD masters on vinyl and that’s because the record companies have figured out that people want vinyl, And they're only making CD masters in digital, so all the new products that come out on vinyl are actually CDs on vinyl, which is really nothing but a fashion statement.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

It's cool to go places where working people are happy.

Five hundred years later we're still doing it. This is a moment where we're either going to reaffirm that's what we do [with Native Americans ], that's who we are, or we're going to start moving toward change. A change won't come easy, because there's a lot of big money that doesn't care about any of this.

You know how the press is: If I mention one mistake, that's the only thing that bothers me unless I mention all the other ones.