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

I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.

Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing. A recording is just a record of part of the experience, but it's not the whole experience.

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

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