Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.

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

I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

I have no doubt in mind that I justify the space I take up in the world.