Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

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.

What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control 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.

I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

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.