All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan Alley. ...and we were the night shift! They gave us keys, because they knew the best songs weren't written in daylight.... We got our keys taken away several times...me and Guy Clark.

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

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.

The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.