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.

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

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

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.

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

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.