From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around.

San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.

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

The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

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

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

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.