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

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.

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

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

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.

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

I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.