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

My gift's primarily literary. That being said, I ended up a musician. By the time I made the bluegrass record...I'm more impressed with myself when I push the envelope musically than I am when I push it literality.

I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.

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.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

Having a child at 55... that's optimism.