I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

When I write something simple I'm always really proud of it. When you write something that simple with that much air in it and the whole premise behind it is something pretty obvious - that everybody wants to be happy and free - the song is sort of an exercise in not forgetting that's what you really want and what you really need. We can get caught up in a lot of other stuff.

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things.