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 still write more songs about girls than anything else.

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity.

I ain't ever satisfied.

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.