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.

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

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

My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day of very intensive school, and you wouldn't even believe me if I told you how much it costs.

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

Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan Alley. ...and we were the night shift! They gave us keys, because they knew the best songs weren't written in daylight.... We got our keys taken away several times...me and Guy Clark.

I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.