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

Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that, there's his voice - an instrument I have coveted for 15 years.

I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.

He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.

I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records, and I don't need to.

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