Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

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

I don't get in vote in whether or how people remember me when I'm gone. It's really dangerous to sit around and worry about it too much, for me. It gets me way too in myself to worry about what people are going to think about me when I'm not around anymore.

Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan Alley. ...and we were the night shift! They gave us keys, because they knew the best songs weren't written in daylight.... We got our keys taken away several times...me and Guy Clark.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.

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