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.

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

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

I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.

I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.

Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.