My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

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.

The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard.

He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.

I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.