You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one.

The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.

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

My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.

I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

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.