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

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

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.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.

I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.

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