Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point.

Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan Alley. ...and we were the night shift! They gave us keys, because they knew the best songs weren't written in daylight.... We got our keys taken away several times...me and Guy Clark.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.