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

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

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.

I'm not a Democrat; I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.

He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.

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

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.