I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.

Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.

I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.

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.

I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.

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