Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

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

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

My gift's primarily literary. That being said, I ended up a musician. By the time I made the bluegrass record...I'm more impressed with myself when I push the envelope musically than I am when I push it literality.