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.

Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

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

I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.

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

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.