If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.

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

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.

By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them.

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

My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.