Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.

The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.

What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.

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

Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.

I don't usually read reviews.

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.