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.

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

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

I don't usually read reviews.

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

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

It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.