I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.
I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.
What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.
I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.
I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.