Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

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

My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day of very intensive school, and you wouldn't even believe me if I told you how much it costs.

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

Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.

He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.