I had everything I need to get me killed.

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.

I have no doubt in mind that I justify the space I take up in the world.

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.