I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing. A recording is just a record of part of the experience, but it's not the whole experience.

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

I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.

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.