You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.

I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.

The revolution starts now.

My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.

I don't usually read reviews.

My gift's primarily literary. That being said, I ended up a musician. By the time I made the bluegrass record...I'm more impressed with myself when I push the envelope musically than I am when I push it literality.