Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

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

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

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

I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.

I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy them, even if they've already downloaded them. If they can afford it. If they can't, I'd rather they be able to download it than not get it at all.