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.

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.

I have no doubt in mind that I justify the space I take up in the world.

The revolution starts now.

The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.