Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

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

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

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan Alley. ...and we were the night shift! They gave us keys, because they knew the best songs weren't written in daylight.... We got our keys taken away several times...me and Guy Clark.

I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy them, even if they've already downloaded them. If they can afford it. If they can't, I'd rather they be able to download it than not get it at all.