I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.

Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.

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

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.