I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

I ain't ever satisfied.

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

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.

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.

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.