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 know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

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.

Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point.

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.