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

I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.

My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day of very intensive school, and you wouldn't even believe me if I told you how much it costs.

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

Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.

I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.