I don't do comparisons because I always lose.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

"Country" has become a marketing term. I see myself as a songwriter.

Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

Isn't that the goal, as you grow older? That you start reclaiming those parts of yourself you didn't recognize or didn't think were there all along? That's what happened when I made The River and the Thread record.

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.