Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.

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.

I don't get in vote in whether or how people remember me when I'm gone. It's really dangerous to sit around and worry about it too much, for me. It gets me way too in myself to worry about what people are going to think about me when I'm not around anymore.

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.

From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around.

You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one.

I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.