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 don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.