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

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

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

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

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

I was comparatively late in understanding Bob Dylan's overwhelming importance as a songwriter. Everybody who does my job exists in the shadow of Bob Dylan. There are two categories: Dylan and everybody else. It's as simple as that. And it's going to be that way until he dies.