I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.

I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.

I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.