It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.

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

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

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

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.

Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan Alley. ...and we were the night shift! They gave us keys, because they knew the best songs weren't written in daylight.... We got our keys taken away several times...me and Guy Clark.

I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.