What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run.
Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.
I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.
San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.