I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.

The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.

Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that, there's his voice - an instrument I have coveted for 15 years.

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity.

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

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