I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

When you're really bummed out, the last thing you want to hear is up-tempo and positive. And it lets you know that you're not alone, that somebody has hurt before. It works the same way with chick songs as it does with political songs. When you hear somebody singing about these things, you know that you're not alone, that somebody else is suspicious of what's going on around us in the world. So you don't feel like you're crazy, and you feel like you might be able to make a difference.

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.

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.

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.

I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.