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

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

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

New Orleans is a unique environment.