I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.

I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

I'm not going to waste a second feeling sorry for myself because I'm not a bigger star than I am. I can walk down the street in most places in the world and I still drive really nice cars.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.