I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.

I'm not a Democrat; I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.

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

I can deal with conservatives in a democracy. With real conservatives, I don't agree with them, but I understand why they believe what they believe and I believe they're being honest with me about it.

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

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.

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