Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

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

I had everything I need to get me killed.

By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them.

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

What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.

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.