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 wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things.

Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.

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.

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

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

Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point.