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

What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.

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

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.

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

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

Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.